Sentence examples for zone of alpine from inspiring English sources

Higher up there is a zone of alpine meadows.

In the north, it is bordered by the forest-steppe, and in the south by the semi-deserts and deserts of Central Asia and the Black and Caspian Seas, with the further vegetation zone of alpine and mountain pastures of the uplands of Central Asia (Kerven et al. 1996; Kremenetski 2003).

On the highest slopes of the west wall of the notch, trees are unable to grow, and an "alpine zone" of alpine-Arctic vegetation exists.

The influence of the subduction is reflected in the presence of thicker lithosphere, along the axial zone of the Alpine chain, where crustal and mantle material is involved in the construction of the mountain chain and its roots after the indentation process.

Above a transition zone (11,000 12,000 feet [3,400 3,700 metres]) is the so-called high moorland, a peculiar zone of Afro-Alpine vegetation.

The alluvial sediments, and widespread beach and lacustrine delta sediments in the Amdo zone are the main source of alpine soil materials.

In the high-altitude zone of Tymfi, a number of alpine lakes home to several rare amphibian species are found surrounded by alpine pasture.

T. alpinus is restricted to the alpine zone of the Sierra Nevada at and above tree-line (2950 to 4100 m) where it occupies open granite habitat, meadow edges and talus slopes [ 39, 41].

In fact, gametophytic apomixis has been documented in many common species of the subalpine and alpine zone of the European Alps (e.g. Alchemilla spp., Hieracium spp., Nardus stricta, Pilosella spp., Poa alpina, Taraxacum spp.; reviewed by Gustafsson, 1952, 1953; Asker and Jerling, 1992; Hörandl, 2011).

Experimental observation was performed to analyze processes in the glacier-snow zone, alpine cold desert zone, marsh meadow zone, alpine shrub zone, and mountain grassland zone based on the isotopic and hydrochemical analyses of glacier, snow, frozen soil, groundwater, and other water sources in the headwater catchment of the alpine cold region.

With an area of 383 square miles (991 square km), it is divided into three hill masses: one stretching along the lake; another inland, bounded north by the Thur River and south by its affluent, the Murg; and the third at the southern extremity of the canton, merging into the pre-Alpine zone of Mount Hörnli.