However, if the current rate of retreat continues, high elevation areas could have altered seasonal and temporal water flow in some river basins.
Forest fragments in different stages of ecological succession are found in high elevation areas.
trees growing in high elevation areas of the northeastern United States have experienced a growth decline.
Most of the surface runoff in June depends on snow melt that takes place at high elevation areas.
High elevation areas in the Wind River Range (WRR) of Wyoming (figure 1) exceed 4 km above sea level and are adjacent to areas of accelerating energy development [3].
The inter-annual variability, which mainly occurs in high elevation areas, shows an increasing trend before 2004/2005 and a decreasing trend after 2004/2005.
However, exiting of the high elevation areas in the west, southwest, north and northeast played as a burrier role in the development of these regions.
In a future with increased air temperature due to climate change, our results indicate that a decrease in the frequency of high peak flow ROS events will occur in the low and middle elevation zones while the frequency of ROS associated peak flows will increase in high elevation areas.
vi) Errors in the extrapolation procedure between LiDAR flight paths and the wider region in RS3, in particular the prediction of low biomass values at high elevation areas in the north, and the lack of high biomass values in the densest forest areas, could be erroneous.
