There have been some great railways to admire: the Schafbergbahn, which is powered by a steam locomotive, the first trans-Alpine line through Austria's Semmering Pass, and the tracks that hug the river banks of Portugal's Douro valley.
The fungus is rare in Europe and its distribution typically corresponds with high elevations at or near the alpine tree line.
Native to Australia and its northern islands, Eucalyptus species occur predominantly in the southern hemisphere from sea level to alpine tree line and from high rainfall to semi-arid zones [ 49].
Then a number of "wows" were heard as the train went through a wild, sweeping Alpine valley lined by swaths of snow-laden larch trees.
We aimed to combine a statistical land-abandonment model with a forest dynamics model, to take into account the combined effects of climate and human land-use on the Alpine tree-line in Switzerland.
The valleys contain stands of rhododendron and forests of birch and pine, while above the tree line alpine vegetation extends to the feet of the glaciers.
Above the tree line, alpine vegetation comprises a variety of different subtypes including grasslands, mires, low heathlands, and crevice-occupying vegetation.
Fir and beech woods give way to the spruce of the upper woods, which in turn fade into subalpine, alpine, and snow-line vegetation.
Our route tiptoed through this alpine Eden, a direct line that left the hiking trail a mile south from Dollar Lake.
Farther north throughout the continent, as present distribution of arable land shows, forests were reduced to remnants; only in the north and below the snow line of Alpine mountains have forests of large and continuing commercial value survived.
