ENPA BAP Upland Heath

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Exmoor National Park Authority
Last updated:
03 December 2013
Topic:
Environment
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Summary

Upland heathland is defined as vegetation dominated by dwarf shrubs such as heather, bell heather, whortleberry and gorses which is generally found above the 300 metre contour. The mixture of these species is distinct from that found on lowland heaths, though on Exmoor, the two grade imperceptibly into each other making the distinction somewhat arbitrary in places.

In addition to a distinctive plant community, there are also an important range of animals that are very characteristic of upland heath. This is an internationally rare community, for which Britain holds a major part of the world resource. Despite this, there have been major losses of upland heathland to agricultural improvement and afforestation, with approximately 30% of moorland in Britain having been lost between 1950 and 1980.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2013-12-02
Access contraints
Not specified
Harvest GUID
9c403d73-6564-4188-9e73-530b4d9b3adc
Extent
Latitude: 51.32263° to 50.96008°
Longitude: -4.07592° to -3.27118°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date
2001-08-01 (publication)
2001-08-01 (creation)
2001-08-01 (revision)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Exmoor National Park Authority (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
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