The phrase "alpine environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific ecological or geographical area characterized by high mountains and cold climates, often associated with unique flora and fauna.
Example: "The alpine environment is home to a variety of species that have adapted to the harsh conditions of high altitudes."
Alternatives: "mountainous region" or "high-altitude ecosystem".
He worked with ecologists to protect the alpine environment, and with local preservationists to protect the historic town.
Whatever one calls them, by four thousand years ago they enabled these early commuters to transform the alpine environment into their workplace.
Visitors follow an interactive trail filled with the sights and sounds of the Yellowstone ecosystem, encountering re-creations of an alpine environment, mountain forest, mountain meadow and lowlands.
The low temperatures in the Alpine environment stem from the decrease in temperature with elevation: warm air rises; as it does so, it expands and cools.
Climbing, especially solo climbing in an Alpine environment with its high level of unpredictability, loneliness, physical workload and often harsh weather, requires psychological investment.
The southern group, which lies in an Alpine environment, is made up of Lake Geneva and the Insubrian lakes (Maggiore, Lugano, Como, and Garda).
Only in some alpine environments do caves form with steeply sloping passages.
However scientists disagree, concluding in one of a number of studies: "The use of livestock grazing in Australian alpine environments as a fire abatement practice is not justified on scientific grounds".
Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Store said action on black carbon was even more urgent than that on CO2: "Even if we turn the rising curve of greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years, the reduction will not occur quickly enough to preserve the polar and alpine environments.
Cushion species occur in nearly all alpine environments worldwide.
They have short spring-summer breeding seasons typical to herbivorous small mammals inhabiting alpine environments [12].
