With increasing elevation, soils are suitable only for grazing or forestation.
As discussed above, the major factor is the decrease in temperature with increasing elevation or extremes in latitude.
Temperatures generally decrease with increasing elevation, and rainfall and humidity are high on slopes that face eastward toward the prevailing winds.
On the upper margins of the forest i.e., from about 8,000 feet (2,400 metres)—bamboo predominates, although these species decrease markedly in height with increasing elevation and merge into the succeeding zone of giant heather.
The decrease in temperature that occurs with increasing elevation has made it possible to identify distinct vertical temperature zones: tierra caliente, or "hot land," tierra templada, or "temperate land," and tierra fria, or "cold land".
The species richness decreases with the increasing elevation.
However, the RHCP reflection coefficient decreases with increasing elevation angle.
The power-level fluctuations are almost periodic with decaying exponential variation with increasing elevation angle.
In the first-yr seeding, sagebrush density and cover generally increased with increasing elevation.
This is much smaller than the actual size of the footprint and the difference decrease with increasing elevation angle.
From left to right increasing azimuth {0°, 40°, 80°} and from top to bottom increasing elevation {0°, 40°, 80°}.
