Sentence examples for local highlands from inspiring English sources

As it spread, the glacial ice mass appears to have combined with other ice caps that had formed on local highlands in eastern Canada and in the northeastern United States.

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.

Focus on the family, particularly male partners, within the mother's care was appropriate for the local Highlands cultures, where men usually make decisions, yet women provide most of the supporting work (42).

This policy was consolidated by the communist government in 1954 with the establishment of the Tatra National Park and the gradual dispossession of local Highland landowners.

By contrast, in the highlands, the fitness of midland and lowland landraces relative to the local highland landraces was 80 82%.

Data on malaria in the western Kenya highlands are derived from hospital clinical records (16, 17 ) and do not provide a population-based, epidemiologic profile or information on the unbiased prevalence of malaria in local highland populations.

For instance, given the greater local adaptation of highland Chiapan maize landraces (Mercer et al. 2008), if the environmental conditions under which highland types flourish change, their in situ and ex situ conservation will be a great challenge.

Near or over the highland, "local optima at the dth order" appear drastically (low evolvability), where d means the radius of their basins.

Mercer et al. (2008) found greater local adaptation of highland than lowland landraces of maize in southern Mexico (see section 'Patterns of adaptive genetic diversity' below), but we have much to learn about geographical and annual patterns of ongoing natural selection.

In return, the Inka system of complementarity introduced previously rare foods from the Andean highlands into local economies.

In contras, local populations of the highland Z. poliogaster were much stronger differentiated.