The island's rich lowland forests have nearly vanished, with rates of forest loss still among the highest on Earth.
The mountains that block Pacific storms have also nurtured the world's largest population of Roosevelt elk, cinnamon-colored ungulates who roam the rich, lowland valleys of the Olympics.
In our opinion the results of this survey indicate that veterinarians and farmers in all of southern Norway should consider the possibility of cobalt deficiency whenever lambs fail to thrive, especially on cultivated or rich lowland pastures.
The rich lowlands remain important agricultural regions.
The rich lowlands along the Loire River produce wines, fruits, and flowers for the markets of Paris.
The rich lowlands became the home of such baronial families as the Aleuads of Lárissa and the Scopads of Crannon, who organized a pan-Thessalian federation under an elected military chief and controlled the Amphictyonic League of northern Greek states in the 6th century bce.
On a landscape scale, the area is: one of the two richest in the world for amphibian species, the second richest known to date for reptiles, within the top nine richest centers for vascular plants (and the top center for trees and shrubs), among the richest lowland areas for birds, high in mammal richness (particularly for bats), and very rich in fish species.
Vice President Álvaro García Linera accused the elite in Santa Cruz, the richest lowland province, of "separatist and racist attitudes," in comments to the official news agency on Friday.
Combined, more than 80% of remaining species-rich lowland forest on mineral soils in Kalimantan (c. 17.8 million ha) is eligible for conversion.
Railroads particularly have serious construction problems and require costly upkeep in permafrost areas because of the necessity of maintaining a relatively low gradient and the subsequent location of the roadbed in ice-rich lowlands that are underlain with perennially frozen ground.
The varied landscape stretches from the mountainous, heavily populated regions of the east to the sparsely populated, energy-rich lowlands in the west, and from the industrialised north, with its Siberian climate and terrain, through the arid, empty steppes of the centre, to the fertile south.
