| Wales, with a topography ranging from
the lowland to the mountainous, and its extensive coastline, is a land of
varied landscape and many different habitats. Its mild, wet climate ensures
that many of these are suitable for mosses and liverworts, and indeed these
plants are important components of many of these habitats. They can also
be useful indicators of environmental conditions - for example, some bryophytes
are strict calcicoles (i.e. they only occur where there calcium is
freely available in the substrate.
The range of habitats includes:
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