Moorland habitats mostly occur in tropical Africa, northern and western Europe, and South America. Most of the world's moorlands are diverse ecosystems. In the extensive moorlands of the tropics, biodiversity can be extremely high.

Moorland generally refers to open upland landscapes dominated by heather and maintained through human management. It is found above the limit of enclosed agricultural land and below the theoretical climatic tree line at about 600m (the tree line is, however, largely absent in the UK, with woodland having been replaced by moorland at this altitude).

2024年12月24日 · Moor, tract of open country that may be either dry with heather and associated vegetation or wet with an acid peat vegetation. In the British Isles, “moorland” is often used to describe uncultivated hilly areas. If wet, a moor is generally synonymous with

2007年5月1日 · Moorland environments are very sensitive to changes in management, climate or pollution. This paper reviews how environmental management change, such as changes in grazing or burning practices, may impact upon moorland processes based on …

2023年9月9日 · In this study, we resurveyed historical moorland plots in 2020, which were surveyed once in 1933, in subalpine ecosystems in northern Japan that have been subjected to little direct human disturbance. We observed a landscape-wide increase in the occurrence of woody species and non-moorland species despite potential resampling errors.

2013年11月14日 · Alpine and subalpine moorland ecosystems are some of the most vulnerable to environmental changes associated with climate change and habitat fragmentation (Chapin et al. 2000). Understanding the consequences of realistic species loss on the functioning and persistence of these ecosystems is key to devising conservation and management strategies.

2017年8月1日 · Moorlands are open habitat highland areas with acidic, low nutrient, and water-logged soils. Moorland habitats comprise of heath-lands, acid grasslands, and swampy landscapes. The heath-lands are dotted with shrubs like bilberry and ling heather, while acid grasslands have wavy hair grass, sheep fescue, and matgrass.

2011年8月23日 · These moorlands are mostly cultural landscapes, dominated by dwarf shrubs [mainly Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull], which were created and maintained by anthropogenic activity, which prevents succession to woodland and maintains a very nutrient-poor ecosystem (Gimingham 1972).

2013年2月1日 · Eutrophication and acidification of heather moorlands by chronic atmospheric nitrogen (N) pollution, is of major concern within these internationally important ecosystems. However, in the UK and Western Europe generally emissions of NO y and NH x peaked during the 20th century.

2022年8月17日 · We disentangled the relationships between diversity and composition of plants and soil microbes (fungi and bacteria) and ecosystem multifunctionality in subalpine moorlands in northern Japan.