Mountain

The montane areas of Scotland are generally regarded as ground beyond 700m above sea level.

This is roughly the elevation of the former tree-line, where scrub and woodland remain scarce and where habitats are near-natural.

Montane habitats consist mainly of moss and lichen heaths, snow beds, blanket bog and terraces of dwarf-shrub heath. Approximately 12 per cent of Scotland's land surface (3 per cent of Great Britain) is montane.

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