Taken together, a scenario of repeated expanding to nearby low altitude plains in the glacial periods (similar to LGM, Figure 5B), and by retreating to mountaintops during interglacial warmer stages (similar to current days, Figure 5A) is the most likely for F. suspensa during the Quaternary climatic changes.
It was tough going – huge peaks, glaciers, snowfields, icy rivers … One day we reached a high-altitude plain filled with boulders covered in petroglyphs.
And then through the hot, dry Bekaa, not so much a valley as a high-altitude plain, with its Hezbollah flags and roadside effigies of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, waving his machine gun in the direction of Israel.
Works by Mr. Puthoff, Mr. Payne and Granville Redmond depict high-altitude plains and distant snowcapped peaks.
In the high-altitude plains and mountains of the eastern Sierra (the Sierra Orientale), the old silver-mining regions of Jalisco, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí boast some of the country's finest colonial architecture, as well as some hauntingly beautiful ghost towns.
Most previous cases of Y. pseudotuberculosis septicemia also concerned inhabitants of low-altitude plains, mainly in rural areas with extensive agriculture zones, which provide favorable habitats for small mammals.
At 3,640 metres above sea level, the city of La Paz sits in a canyon resembling something of a bowl within the Bolivian altiplano – a high altitude, windswept plain that dominates the southern and western territory of the country.
Since human habitation and subsequent forest fragmentation of their home island of Mindoro, the habitat preferences of the tamaraw have somewhat expanded to lower-altitude grassy plains.
The third event was estimated from the evidence of about 50 m difference of altitude of delta plain between the Gokarna and Thimi Formations.
The migratory locust Locusta migratoria is widely distributed in China, both on the low-altitude North China Plain (NP) and on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau (TP).
