These species occur mainly in montane forests and grasslands in the south-eastern highlands of the country. |
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On the other hand, it was shown that epiphytic orchids survived severe frost in Mexican montane forests. |
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The country is covered with a wide range of mangrove, heath, peat swamp, mixed dipterocarp, and montane forests. |
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Other primarily montane species include the gymnure, siamang, and red-cheeked squirrel. |
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Blacktail Deer Creek is a third-order montane stream with a narrow, well-defined riparian area bounded by sagebrush and open forest uplands. |
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Proper management of the mesophyllous montane forests is essential to maintain their catchment of rainfall. |
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Scarlet gilia is a common monocarpic perennial wildflower of western montane habitats. |
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One of the most accessible places to see a bit of the montane rainforest is near Honolulu. |
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The land selected was, according to old British maps, once a shola montane forest with grassland draining into a large wetland. |
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The mid-journey night in montane Flagstaff had refreshed, restored and rejuvenated me. |
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The natural vegetation on most of it is tall lowland forest, with shorter montane forests at higher elevations. |
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The montane zone ends at the subalpine zone, which is where tree growth is more difficult. |
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It would also change drastically the montane landscapes and the livelihood of their inhabitants. |
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The Black Hills are the eastern limit of the Ponderosa pine forests and about the only place you can find pristine patches of montane grasslands. |
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However, the three species are generally segregated by altitude, ranging from lowland swamp forests to higher altitude montane forests. |
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The park is one of the last large tracts of montane wet forest in eastern or central Africa. |
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Barred Owls can be found year-round in most lowland and montane forests throughout Washington. |
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The species inhabits the understoreys of montane forests, mainly plateau forests. |
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New records and a status assessment of a rare dwarf brocket deer from the montane forests of Bolivia. |
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The lowering of montane vegetation belts in New Guinea during the last ice age was broadly synchronous with that of South America and Africa. |
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Could the mysterious ibisbill raptor, isolated in its remote montane habitat, in fact be the last of the true Specworld troodonts? |
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For example, when the climate warmed, montane forest communities contracted and moved up the mountain slopes, where the climate was relatively cool. |
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The higher herbivory pressure by mollusks in the lowlands has been discussed as the main reason for the lower altitudinal distribution limit of montane plant species. |
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The mountain landscape of Kootenay National Park is characterised by three distinct ecoregions: the montane, subalpine and alpine. |
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Nectarinia moreaui is restricted to the montane inselbergs of the south-central Eastern Arc Mountains and is, therefore, a range-restricted endemic to Tanzania. |
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Frugivorous lowland gorillas, for example, should both prefer and be more capable of metabolizing ethanol than their more folivorous montane counterparts. |
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The capercaillie is often referred to as an indicator species of healthy old forest communities in montane and boreal ecosystems. |
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We investigated the importance of snowmelt as an organizing factor for epilithic microalgae in a high-altitude montane stream during 3 yr of differing melt characteristics. |
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Between these extremes of latitude, tropical dry forests and montane cloud forests grow in climatic zones that favor unique combinations of species from both north and south. |
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The upscale resort developers continue to covet two square kilometres of rare montane habitat on the Rocky Mountains' eastern slopes near Rocky Mountain House. |
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The Chair program focuses on understanding the dynamics and processes of Canada's boreal and montane forests. |
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Bears, waking in spring, roam in and out of the montane, feasting on the red-and-orange buffalo berries for weeks at a time in the fall. |
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Peak flows from snowmelt are the dominant hydrologic feature of most boreal and montane watersheds. |
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Many montane sites of global biodiversity conservation significance remain completely unprotected. |
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These areas include glaciers, montane forests and cloud forests in tropical regions. |
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It welcomed the submission of this nomination, which covered lowland, semi-montane and montane tropical forests. |
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The general ecosystem of the area is montane shrubland superimposed on intrusive igneous rocks forming laccoliths. |
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At Fort Lewis, the habitat is montane shrubland superimposed on intrusive igneous rocks forming laccoliths. |
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The montane region expanded down along mountain slopes, while lowland dipterocarp forest retracted as average temperature decreased over time. |
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Elephants, rhinoceroses, buffalo, antelope, hyrax, bush pigs, and monkeys, including the black-and-white colobus, are among the main inhabitants of the montane forest. |
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The Torngat montane herd was not different from the George River and Leaf River migratory herds, but it was different from the four sedentary populations. |
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Considerable spatial redistribution of ecosystems is projected, with currently important sub-boreal and montane climate regions rapidly disappearing. |
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Arctic and montane species were especially vulnerable. |
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Birches are generally lowland species, but some species, such as Betula nana, have a montane distribution. |
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This latter species is characteristic of highly exposed Atlantic coastal heathland and montane habitats. |
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Common gorse is also an invasive species in the montane grasslands of Horton Plains National Park in Sri Lanka. |
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Almost half of the bird population of the Talamancan montane forests in Costa Rica and Panama are endemic to this region. |
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There are even smaller reserves of forests that are out of the reach of fire, known as montane forests. |
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The montane area of Seram supports the greatest number of endemic mammals of any island in the region. |
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It harbors 38 mammal species and includes nine species that are endemic or near endemic, several of which are limited to montane habitats. |
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This plateau extends through the border with Cameroon, where the montane land is part of the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon. |
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Minerals often occur in mountains, with mining being an important component of the economics of some montane societies. |
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As the provincial borders have not always been stable, this practice has resulted in some confusion about exactly where the montane borders are. |
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They are also known as submontane zones, especially when referring to montane ecosystems. |
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They typically grow in cold or wet habitats, and in the tropics, are most common in montane environments. |
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Home range and habitat use of American black bears on a desert montane island in Texas. |
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Our study showed that the migratory ecotype is currently smaller than the sedentary ecotype, whereas the montane ecotype holds an intermediate position on the body size and shape graph. |
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The boreal and montane forests of Canada are noted for producing vast amounts of high-quality wood products that play a large role in the positive balance of trade for Canada. |
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The Central American montane forests are an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. |
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The different types of habitats in the area are mangroves, restinga, moist lowland forest and marshes, and moist submontane, montane, and upper montane forests. |
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Biogeography of the montane entomofauna of Mexico and Central America. |
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We used time-lapse video cameras to monitor nests of Red-faced Warblers and Yellow-eyed Juncos in montane forests of the Santa Catalina Mountains in southeastern Arizona. |
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The gorilla's ancestor had probably taken to the montane forests of a string of central African volcanoes, cutting itself off from the genes of other apes. |
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