Snow-beds provide a specialised habitat for communities of lichens and bryophytes in Scotland’s mountains.

In May, Scotland published its first Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme –  a set of actions to increase Scotland’s resilience to the impacts of a changing climate.

RBGE is helping to produce a number of climate change indicator cards for the natural environment. The cards, developed by ClimateXChange, measure progress in how we are helping nature to adapt to climate change.

The most recent card explains the status of specialist snow-bed bryophytes. In collaboration with SNH and the University of Bergen, RBGE will be re-surveying snow-bed sites over the next three years to update our knowledge.