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montane
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Flora and fauna of a montane habitat.
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"The committee considers the most effective way to prevent further decline and rebuild the population of Leadbeater's possum is to cease timber harvesting within montane ash forests of the central highlands," it recommended.
Top of the list in North America, for example, were the montane vole and the northern grasshopper mouse.
All inhabit lowland and montane tropical rainforests.
The second biome is mountain vegetation; it comprises montane and temperate grasslands and covers the higher altitudes of the Western and Eastern highlands.
The biome types range from tropical rainforest to montane and cloud forest, with drier biome types in areas of the southern division.
In the montane (Afroalpine) zones Lobelia, Senecio, and Erica (heath) are characteristic.
Its undulating surface is covered with montane grassland and patches of evergreen forest (including the southernmost occurrence of the Mulanje tree [Juniperus procera]) and is marked by occasional peaks and ridges (Nganda, 8,551 feet [2,606 m]; Vitumbi, 8,291 feet [2,527 m]).
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In equatorial Africa, certain primate species have colonized the montane-savanna regions, or moorlands, where the rugged mountainous terrain and seasonal food scarcity support herds of geladas and hamadryas baboons.
Dr Montaner's study, published in the Lancet, was the strongest confirmation yet that treatment and prevention are two sides of the same coin.
That businesslike approach was apparent, too, in discussions over focusing treatment on those who are most at risk.As the meeting opened, it was announced that a study by Julio Montaner, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, had shown that ramping up treatment in that Canadian province halved the rate of new infections.
This is a decisive result, and a triumph both for the study's organisers, and for Julio Montaner of the University of British Columbia, who pioneered this approach and has been pushing for its implementation for years.
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