Description
Location and General Description
Biodiversity Features
Current Status
Types and Severity of Threats
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
This ecoregion is equivalent to the DMEER (2000) unit of the same name. The boundaries of this unit are primarily a product of the DMEER delineation process, and the ecoregion includes flood-plain vegetation and moist lowland forests, lowland to submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, and ombrotrophic mires of northwestern Ireland and Scotland (Bohn et al. 2000).
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http://www.ukbap.org.uk/plans/habitats/NBNSYS0000004633.htm
http://www.ulstermuseum.org.uk/flora/default.htm
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