How To Use Subalpine In A Sentence
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The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone).
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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To investigate further, the biologists took to subalpine forests in the foothills of Mount Fuji, where the cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of red-flanked bush robins.
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The steep, mountainous Volcanic Subalpine Forests ecoregion is composed of volcanic and igneous rocks, predominately andesitic with areas of basalt.
Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Peaty soils dominated hollows and lower slopes with tallish heather, and subalpine soils dominated the freely drained ground with short heath.
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The Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: This 93-mile circumnavigation of the mountain traverses lowland forests and subalpine meadows.
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Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields.
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Although it has a wide latitudinal range, it is mostly habitat restricted and dominates subalpine communities in which prostrate individuals characterize the upper tree line.
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As you gain elevation, you leave the montane areas and enter the subalpine ecosystem.
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Vegetative cover is extremely diverse: alpine environments contain various herb, lichen and shrub associations; whereas the subalpine environment has tree species such as lodgepole pine, subalpine fir, silver fir, grand fir, and Engelmann spruce.
Northwestern Forested Mountains ecoregion (CEC)
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The effects of increasing snowpack on a subalpine meadow in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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Slender subalpine bamboos (Fargesia spp.) and ferns (Dryopteris spp.) may flourish in the understory, with mosses and lichen on the leaves and culms of the bamboo and a deep, slowly decomposing litter layer rich with fungi.
Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests
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Perched on a knoll at 6,400 feet, the hut looks out onto a line of ridges where the subalpine forest climbs to 7,800 feet before giving way to the granite flanks of the Caucasus.
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The gorge area supports several forest types that are azonal, i.e. forests that occur in subalpine regions that have unusual environmental conditions.
Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests
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At higher elevations, it is seral to subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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True salamanders live in burrows under logs or stones in moist woodlands and subalpine meadows, emerging only on mild, damp nights.
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Starting and ending in the classic subalpine valley of Mineral King, we'll roam deep canyons, gaze upon lofty peaks, cross high passes, and revel in the grand Big and Little Five Lake basins.
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Forested slopes of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir give way to aspen-clad foothills and rolling sagebrush steppes that have the spongy look of muskeg, but two shades lighter.
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It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry, with some patches of short heath.
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The ESA has the ability to protect species ranging from small subalpine plants to large megafauna around the globe but each individual species listed under the ESA may require specialized monitoring programs.
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Winter snowfall accumulates as a snowpack and the high elevation Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir and limber pine forests provide an essential cover so that the snow melts slowly in the springtime and feeds the headwaters of the mighty Colorado River which drains one tenth of the land base in the lower 48 states.
Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
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The study area is subalpine tundra, and primary vegetation is shrubby willow.
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Based on physiographic types, five altitudinal vegetation zones have been identified within Lorentz National Park: lowland zone, montane zone, subalpine zone, alpine zone, and nival zone.
Lorentz National Park, Indonesia
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From under the granular crust of a subalpine snowfield sprang forth life as tender and fresh as a butterfly's newly unfolded wings.
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Study on soil ecological process is helpful to deeply reveal the function of forest ecosystem, and is one of the most challenging fields in all ecological processes of subalpine coniferous forests.
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To that end, my colleagues and I began an experimental study of climate-ecosystem feedback 12 years ago in a subalpine meadow at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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The montane zone ends at the subalpine zone, which is where tree growth is more difficult.
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Sure, you'll pass through three distinct ecosystems - montane, subalpine, and alpine tundra.
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The variety continues to be planted in an ever wider range of locations, but Italy has a long history of Chardonnay cultivation, especially on its subalpine slopes in the north.
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Larix lyallii, or alpine larch (sometimes called subalpine larch).
Museum Blogs
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Sure, you'll pass through three distinct ecosystems - montane, subalpine, and alpine tundra.
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However, subalpine meadow possessed higher species diversity than herb communities within fir forest.
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It occupied an area that includes both lower and upper cordilleran and subalpine ecoregions, typically characterized by closed forests of lodge-pole pine, Engelmann spruce, aspen and poplar.
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Potential natural vegetation includes subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce, with lodgepole pine as a seral species.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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As temperatures rise (the 1990s were warmer than the 1980s, and the 1980s warmer than the 1970s, says Mote), trees are filling in the park's subalpine meadows.
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Thus, a typical sequence on tropical mountains is from lowland tropical forest, through submontane, montane, and subalpine vegetation zones to the alpine zones of grasses and shrubs.
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In Washington, they are typically found in lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock, subalpine fir, whitebark pine, and Engleman spruce.
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Spruce bark beetles were after the spruce trees and fir engraver beetles were killing subalpine fir trees.
Bird Cloud
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It is dominated by tree species that thrive in cool, humid climates with heavy snow cover, such as subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce.
Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)
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In addition, mid-seral subalpine forests have experienced a 35 percent decrease while late-seral montane multi-story forests have increased by 35 percent.
Central and Southern Cascades forests
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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The mountain streams are usually at low to subalpine elevations within a closed forest canopy, and have midstream gravel bars or rocks for roosting.
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At the upper limit of this zone, continuous forest gives way to parkland comprising islands of small, commonly stunted trees and subalpine meadows.
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Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields.
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A short walk on the 1 1/2-mile (one way) Hidden Lake Nature Trail will lead you past a subalpine meadow dotted with beargrass, to an overlook, and perhaps to a glimpse of mountain goats.
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Weather at the study site was typical of that found below snowline in subalpine forests of southeastern Australia, where autumn and winter are characterized by frosty nights followed by cool to mild, sunny days.
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Subalpine forest has subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and mountain ash.
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This situation is particularlydamaging to fragile subalpine and alpine ecosystems, which recover slowly fromdisturbance.
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Thus, a typical sequence on tropical mountains is from lowland tropical forest, through submontane, montane, and subalpine vegetation zones to the alpine zones of grasses and shrubs.
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Above the tree line at about 2,600 m, the vegetation is subalpine.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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A short walk on the 1 1/2-mile (one way) Hidden Lake Nature Trail will lead you past a subalpine meadow dotted with beargrass, to an overlook, and perhaps to a glimpse of mountain goats.
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Like their attempts to afforest treeless subalpine meadows, they planted forage species that had never grown in these mountains.
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Lakeside subalpine meadow in Qinghai important for the ranch.
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From there down to about 8,100 feet is a subalpine forest with subalpine fir, mountain ash, and other species.
