Abstract
Summary The Western Isles machair has supported agriculture for 5,000 years, but its future suitability for this purpose is far from certain. Marine transgression and changes in agricultural practice have profound effects on this fragile environment, but the dynamics of cause and effect are not documented. A constructive policy for management and conservation of the machair must be based on an intimate knowledge of the environment, gained in detailed, multidisciplinary studies involving several years of close monitoring. The project described in this paper aims to define, in geomorphological and vegetational terms, the responses of the machair to changing patterns of agriculture, climatic conditions and rising sea levels.
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