| The montane zone ends at the subalpine zone, which is where tree growth is more difficult. |
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| The Olympics are also home to the biggest western hemlock, subalpine and Pacific silver fir, Alaska-cedar, and Englemana spruce. |
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| From there down to about 8,100 feet is a subalpine forest with subalpine fir, mountain ash, and other species. |
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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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| Like their attempts to afforest treeless subalpine meadows, they planted forage species that had never grown in these mountains. |
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| The study area is subalpine tundra, and primary vegetation is shrubby willow. |
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| Whitebark pines are what silviculturists term a keystone species of upper subalpine ecosystems. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| The same holds true for many of lodgepole pine's spruce and subalpine fir neighbors. |
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| Subalpine forest has subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and mountain ash. |
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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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| As temperatures rise, trees are filling in the park's 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Patterns of air temperature and accumulation of snow in subalpine heathlands and grasslands on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria. |
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| Here, the species nests near the tree line and hunt subalpine and alpine pastures, grassland and heath above. |
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| Just below the tree line, one may find subalpine forests of needleleaf trees, which can withstand cold, dry conditions. |
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| The rare woodland caribou have the most restricted range living at higher altitudes in the subalpine meadows and alpine tundra areas of some of the mountain ranges. |
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| In the northern Rockies, a significant increase in pines and firs suggests warmer conditions than before and a shift to subalpine parkland in places. |
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