View source for Moorland

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons:

You currently can not change pages on Wikipedia.

The ability to change pages has been removed from this account, IP address or IP address range by ‪Operator873‬. This block affects 206.189.0.0/16. The following reason(s) were given for this block:

The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider or colocation provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts and colocation providers may be blocked from changing Wikipedia.

You will not be able to change Wikipedia using a web host or colocation provider.

Since the web host acts like a proxy, because it hides your IP address, it has been blocked. To stop abuse, these IPs may be blocked from changing Wikipedia.

If you do not believe you are using a web host and think this block is unfair, you can ask to be unblocked by adding {{Unblock|your reason here}} to your user talk page. If you cannot do this or the reason is private please send an e-mail to simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org and an administrator will look at your reason and reply. You may want to read our guide to unblock requests before asking to be unblocked.

DigitalOcean ASN 14061

Your IP address is 206.189.44.186. This block has been set to finish on: 07:01, 25 March 2027.

You are not blocked from reading pages, only from changing or creating them.
If you have just clicked a red link, you were blocked from creating a new page as no article on that topic is there yet.

If you think you were not blocked fairly, you can ask an administrator to look at your block and decide whether it should be removed. If you are logged in and using an account with a registered e-mail address, you can e-mail an active administrator. If you are logged in with an account but you do not have a registered e-mail address, then please go to your settings to set one.

If you think the block is unfair, you can add {{unblock|reason goes here}} to the bottom of your talk page, replacing reason goes here with why you think your block is not fair, or send an e-mail to simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org and an administrator will look at your reason and reply. You may want to read our guide to unblock requests before requesting to be unblocked.

Please be aware that abuse of {{unblock}}, using the unblock template many times even when it is denied, personal attacks, or rudeness, will often lead to you being blocked from changing your talk page to stop further misuse of the unblock template.

Innocent?

Sometimes large ranges are blocked from changing Wikipedia for very bad cases of vandalism. This means that a lot of people may not be able to change pages.

If you are blocked and want to change pages you may send an email to simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org and an administrator will look at your reason and reply.

Also, if you have a dynamic IP address, some dynamic IP addresses may already be blocked when they are assigned to you.

We are sorry for any problems this may cause.

You currently can not change pages on Wikipedia.

The ability to change pages on all Wikimedia wikis has been removed from this account, IP address or IP address range by ‪EPIC‬. The following reason(s) were given for this block:

Open proxy/Webhost: See the help page if you are affected

Your IP address is 206.189.44.186. This block began on 08:48, 2 July 2024 and has been set to finish on: 08:48, 2 July 2025.

If you think you were not blocked fairly, you may make unblock requests or file appeals at meta:Steward requests/Global.

You can view and copy the source of this page.

{{otheruses}}
{{redlinks|date=May 2020}}
[[Image:Shira moorlands on Kilimanjaro.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Moorland of [[Kilimanjaro]]]]

'''Moorland''' or '''moor''' is a type of [[habitat]] that one can find in upland areas, that are characterised by [[acid]]ic soils. 

Moorland habitats are rather common in the [[Neotropic ecozone|neotropics]] and [[Tropics|tropical]] [[Africa]] but one can find them also in small scattered places in northern and western [[Europe]], northern [[Australia]], [[North America]], [[Central Asia]] and the [[Indian subcontinent]]. In the tiny areas of European moorlands tend to be  environments with only very few [[species]]. They are often dominated by [[Calluna|heather]]. In the far more extensive moorlands of the tropics species [[Biodiversity|diversity]] can be extremely high. 

Moorlands differ from typical [[heathland]] in being colder and much wetter, often with extensive [[bog]]s.

==Famous moorlands in the UK==
Notable areas of upland moorland in Britain include the [[Dark Peak]], the [[Forest of Bowland]], the [[Lake District]], the [[Pennines]], [[The desert of Wales|Mid Wales]], the [[Southern Uplands]] of Scotland, the [[Scottish Highlands]] and a few very small pockets in western [[Herefordshire]].
[[File:Barden Moor - geograph.org.uk - 193269.jpg|thumb|Moorland in Yorkshire]]
[[File:Forvie Moor - geograph.org.uk - 604418.jpg|thumb|Moorland in Scotland]]
*[[Bleaklow]], [[Dark Peak]], England
* [[Bodmin Moor]], Cornwall
* [[Curry and Hay Moors]], Somerset, England
* [[Dartmoor]], and [[Dartmoor wildlife]], Devon, England
* [[Emley Moor]], West Yorkshire, England
* [[Exmoor]], Devon and Somerset, England
* [[Ilkley Moor]], West Yorkshire, England
* [[Marston Moor]] and [[North York Moors National Park|North York Moors]], North Yorkshire, England
* [[Rannoch Moor]], Highland, Scotland
* [[Rombalds Moor]], West Yorkshire, England
* [[Saddleworth Moor]], Pennine hills, England
* [[Shropshire Hills]], small pockets of moorland, England 
* [[Staffordshire Moorlands]], England
* [[Ythan Estuary]] complex, [[Aberdeenshire]], [[Scotland]], largest [[coast]]al moorland in the [[United Kingdom]], known for high [[biodiversity]].

==Conservation==
In Europe if the heather and other [[vegetation]] is left for too long, a large volume of dry and combustible material builds up. This may cause a [[fire]] which may burn out a large area. But generally moorland [[wildlife]] copes with even major fires and are easily able to recover if such intense burnings are not too frequent.

==Other websites==
*[http://www.moorland.de Moorland]


{{geo-stub}}

[[Category:Habitats]]

Templates used on this page:

Template:Ambox (view source) (semi-protected)
Template:Cleanup red links (change)
Template:Geo-stub (view source) (semi-protected)
Template:Main other (view source) (protected)
Template:Other uses (view source) (semi-protected)
Template:Otheruses (view source) (semi-protected)
Template:Redlinks (change)
Template:Stub-template (view source) (protected)
Module:Arguments (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/blacklist (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/shared (view source) (protected)
Module:Format link (view source) (semi-protected)
Module:Hatnote (view source) (semi-protected)
Module:Hatnote/styles.css (view source) (semi-protected)
Module:Hatnote list (view source) (semi-protected)
Module:Message box (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/ambox.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Other uses (change)
Module:TableTools (view source) (protected)
Module:Yesno (view source) (protected)

Return to Moorland

Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorland"