| The machair is an internationally rare habitat that is formed when sand is blown onto peat moorland. |
| Here too is the machair, the flat strip of sandy grass-grown land close to the shore. |
| On the lower ground, choose a line which leads over crofting machair land to a tractor track back to the village. |
| The only visible sign of military presence are the tracks of a four wheel drive vehicle crossing the beach to a tarred road in the machair. |
| After removal of sand, each machair sub-community showed some capacity for an elastic photosynthetic response. |
| On Iona, the threat is to its white sand beaches and the coastal machair which protects low-lying areas further inland. |
