Sentence examples for subalpine from inspiring English sources

Slightly lower than the High Alps is the subalpine "ridge-and-valley" terrain.

They are known as subalpine and montane forests and are dominated by combinations of pine, spruce, and fir.

The subalpine forests comprise western hemlock, lodgepole pine, western red cedar, white spruce, and Engelmann spruce.

In the highest mountains are small areas of subalpine woodland, mainly alpine snow gums.

Subalpine meadows of mixed grasses and cereals extend up to almost 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) on the moist northern slopes but on southern slopes are usually replaced by mountain steppes.

It includes the beeches and oaks of the maritime west; hornbeam and larch trees in the more continental east, predominantly in the Engadin and the dry Valais; extensive spruce forests in the northern subalpine region; and chestnut groves in the south.

Lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock, Sierra juniper, and western white pine are among the trees of the subalpine forest.

The major difference between subarctic and subalpine timberline environments is that the subalpine environment has greater light intensity and more ultraviolet light, less variation in the length of the day, lower carbon dioxide, and more daily temperature variation.

The subalpine also has higher precipitation, especially snow, but the soil is generally drier because of better soil drainage and the mountainous topography.

Alpine vegetation subalpine shrubs giving way to meadows widely used for summer pasture and then to mosses and bare rock and ice is found only on the highest ridges.

A relatively narrow belt of intermediate or mixed vegetation the subalpine usually exists between the forests below and the alpine vegetation above.