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Below is a list of ecoregions in Scotland.
The principal plant communities of the Celtic broadleaf forests include:[1]
Plant communities with smaller areas include:
In addition to the two native oak species (Quercus robur and Q. petraea), broad-leafed deciduous trees include common ash, silver birch, European aspen, and common elm.
Small annual temperature variation, high humidity, and high levels of annual precipitation makes Celtic Rainforest an important habitat for numerous common and rare species of mosses, liverworts, and lichens.[2][3][4][5] The Scottish Natural History Scientific Advisory Committee writes, "the whole area is a lichenologists’ Mecca".[2] There is an exceptional number of epiphytic plants (plants growing on or hanging from trees without being parasitic).[2] The ground is covered with a deep blanketing of mosses and liverworts, which rise up the trunks of the trees onto the horizontal branches and up into the canopy.[2]
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