• Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, a region of limestone mountains (karst topography in Laos. (wikipedia.org)
  • He covers the creation of California - it's only recently been pasted onto North America - how the Sierra Nevada formed and what it actually is, why Nevada looks like it does, how the Colorado Plateau got there, how the Rocky Mountains were formed, and some very interesting and odd details as well. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • The region's rugged terrain consists of hills and mountains interspersed with plateaus and large valleys. (canada.ca)
  • These mountains, alongside the Tibetan Plateau and the Hindu Kush Mountains, are home to the largest permanent ice mass outside of the Arctic and Antarctic. (vox.com)
  • A smaller range of mountains extends along the Kazakhstan border. (factsanddetails.com)
  • There are high plateaus around the mountains. (factsanddetails.com)
  • 1997). Sylvilagus obscurus is confined to higher elevations in the Appalachian Mountains south and west of the Hudson River and ranges from northeastern Pennsylvania south. (eaglehill.us)
  • It is geo-climatically diverse, with the Himalayan and trans-Himalayan mountains, the Indo-Gangetic plains, deserts, the peninsular plateau with mountain ranges, and riverine and coastal plains. (countercurrents.org)
  • The Great Valley, paralleling the Plateau to the west and the Great Smoky Mountains to the east, is a funnel-shaped valley varying in width from about 30 miles in the south to about 90 miles in the north. (etsu.edu)
  • Thus, higher portions of the state, such as the Cumberland Plateau and the mountains of the east, have lower average temperature than the Great Valley of East Tennessee, which they flank, and other lower parts of the state. (etsu.edu)
  • varied and biodiverse regions of the world, with physical terrain ranging from lush tropical coastline to the Andean plateau and mountains that contain several active volcanoes. (epw.in)
  • Coupled climate and 4-D thermomechanical lithosphere modeling performed to date indicate that the timing of uplift and tilt of the Colorado Plateau (CP) have a significant influence on the source and volume of sediments supplied to the Sespe Delta region. (stonybrook.edu)
  • Spirit climbed onto a volcanic plateau in a range of hills that were on the distant horizon from the landing site. (astronomy.com)
  • The largest, the Waikato, begins on Mt Ruapehu before flowing from Lake Taupō across the Volcanic Plateau, into the Waikato basin and out to the Tasman Sea. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Tibet is a plateau region, having an average elevation ranging between 14, 000 ft to 16,000 ft. (iloveindia.com)
  • The Highland Rim ranges from about 600 feet in elevation along the Tennessee River to 1,000 feet in the east and rises 300 to 400 feet above the Central Basin which is a rolling plain of about 600 feet average elevation, but with a crescent of hills reaching to over 1,000 feet south of Nashville. (etsu.edu)
  • The Cumberland Plateau, with an average elevation of 2,000 feet extends roughly northeast-southwest across the state in a belt 30 to 50 miles wide, being bounded on the west by the Highland Rim and overlooking the Great Valley of East Tennessee on the east. (etsu.edu)
  • Finally, the last setting is centred around Lospalos, the capital of the Lautém district, set on an inland plateau at an elevation of approximately 340 m. (lu.se)
  • The terrain ranges from low-lying coastal regions to the Andean plateau at 18700 Feet or 5700m and tropical rainforest. (dole.com)
  • Such regions are the Coastal Range, the Puget Sound Lowlands, the Cascade Range, the Columbia Plateau, and the Rocky Mountain region. (mapsofworld.com)
  • Covering the southern part of the peninsular Deccan Plateau, South India is bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west and the Indian Ocean in the south. (earth.com)
  • It targets four Aslian languages - Jahai, Menriq, Semnam and Temiar - all of which are spoken in and along the northern parts of the Titiwangsa Range, Peninsular Malaysia. (lu.se)
  • The main populated regions are the river valleys, but the mountain slopes also support pastoral Changpa nomads. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rivers that thread through the region are fed by melting snow and glaciers and carve deep valleys and ravines. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The Waikato region consists of valleys and coastal lands separated by ranges. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Syria is largely a semiarid or arid plateau, and encompasses various mountain ranges, desert regions, and the Euphrates River Basin 6 . (cdc.gov)
  • Sediment provenance studies of the Sespe Formation within the Los Angeles Basin region suggest sediment sources within regions as far east-northeast as the present-day Arizona Transition Zone. (stonybrook.edu)
  • In addition, the elbow that changes the direction of the Grande River makes it cross a quartzite mountain range through a series of river gorges, before entering in the Paraná Sedimentary Basin. (copernicus.org)
  • The Thames valley is divided from the Waikato basin by greywacke hills running north through the Hapūakohe and Hūnua ranges. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Another greywacke range separates the Waikato basin from the west coast. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The hilly Highland Rim, in a wide circle touching the Tennessee River Valley in the west and the Cumberland Plateau in the east, together with the enclosed Central Basin make up the whole of Middle Tennessee. (etsu.edu)
  • The Tibetan Plateau (TP) and surrounding regions have one of the most complex biotas on Earth. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 1: Palaeogeographical processes in the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions during the Cenozoic. (nature.com)
  • Tibet is a plateau region, housing the Tibetan people. (iloveindia.com)
  • Archaeological evidences suggest that the Tibetan Plateau was inhabited by humans around 21,000 years ago. (iloveindia.com)
  • Sopngtsan Gampo integrated the regions of Yarlung River Valley and established the Tibetan Empire. (iloveindia.com)
  • The main religious groups in the region are Muslims (mainly Shia ) (46%), Buddhists (mainly Tibetan Buddhists ) (40%), and Hindus (12%) with the remaining 2% made of other religions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study also highlights western central Africa, Papua New Guinea, the western Tibetan Plateau, and the East Australian rainforest. (nationofchange.org)
  • The southern section consists of ignimbrite, which also forms the plateau at Mamaku in south Waikato. (teara.govt.nz)
  • C entral Lebanon consists of a fertile plateau called the Bekaa Valley (El Beqaa), which is an extension of the great East African Rift Valley that was formed by a giant fault in the earth's crust. (cp-pc.ca)
  • It consists of mountainous in a semignomadic community in the coung regions in the north and east, and plateau try [ 6 ]. (who.int)
  • These results indicate that geological events such as the Indo-Asian Collision, the TP uplift, and the aridification of the Asian interior underpinned the evolutionary history of the zoogeographical regions surrounding the TP over different time periods. (nature.com)
  • In spite of receiving water from seasonal rains and also from the Rio Frío and Sevilla rivers, water scarcity is an on-going concern in the region. (dole.com)
  • Rivers in the Waikato region are alluvial, flowing through flood plains they have created by depositing sediment. (teara.govt.nz)
  • However, the momentum seems to have slowed down since 2008, with stunting prevalence having plateaued and ranging between 35-36 percent in the last decade (Ministry of Agriculture, 2018). (who.int)
  • Despite the plateau in asthma average for the period 2001-2005 prevalence, ambulatory care for asthma use has continued to grow since 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • While it is tempting to attribute prevalence patterns to climate or air available, the rate of emergency quality, many factors affect prevalence and may also vary by region. (cdc.gov)
  • For example, the Puerto Rican population, in which asthma prevalence is highest, tends to be concentrated in the Northeast region of the country (3). (cdc.gov)
  • The seasonally lack of rain makes this area a transition region between organic and conventional farming. (dole.com)
  • Some of the biggest shifts stemming from climate change are occurring in what scientists call the cryosphere , the regions of the world where water freezes seasonally, like the ice caps or mountain peaks. (vox.com)
  • Males occupied larger home ranges during the leaf-on than leaf-off season, but female ranges did not differ seasonally. (eaglehill.us)
  • In my PhD project, we will combine geological archives, with climate model output to develop unique seasonally resolved climate field reconstructions for the North Atlantic region. (lu.se)
  • Here, we quantify the temporal changes in beta dissimilarities among zoogeographical regions during the Cenozoic using 4,966 extant terrestrial vertebrates and 1,278 extinct mammal genera. (nature.com)
  • The historic country of Tibet comprises of three provinces of Amdo (now split by China into the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu & Sichuan), Kham (largely incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai) and U-Tsang (which, together with western Kham, is today referred to by China as the Tibet Autonomous Region). (iloveindia.com)
  • The Quebec portion of the Atlantic Northern Forest Bird Conservation Region (BCR 14-QC) largely equates to the Appalachian ecoregion and covers 129 186 km 2 . (canada.ca)
  • These results suggest that the future range of Crofton weed in China will be restricted largely to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which includes major parts of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the southwestern part of Sichuan province, and the western part of Guangxi province. (bioone.org)
  • The Tibet Autonomous Region, which is commonly referred to as Tibet, is only a part of the historic country of Tibet, created by China for administrative purposes. (iloveindia.com)
  • [2] Ladakh is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region to the east, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the south, both the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan to the west, and the southwest corner of Xinjiang across the Karakoram Pass in the far north. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the past, Ladakh gained importance from its strategic location at the crossroads of important trade routes, [14] but as Chinese authorities closed the borders between Tibet Autonomous Region and Ladakh in the 1960s, international trade dwindled. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the majestic Himalayan ranges to the Pangong lake, one can visit many attractions in between, in the beautiful district of Ladakh. (thrillophilia.com)
  • In 1834 the Sikh Empire attacked the region and annexed Ladakh into their territory. (iloveindia.com)
  • Ladakh ( / l ə ˈ d ɑː k / ) [10] is a region administered by India as a union territory [1] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959. (wikipedia.org)
  • As Ladakh is strategically important, the Indian military maintains a strong presence in the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • [16] [17] Ladakh is one of the most sparsely populated regions in India. (wikipedia.org)
  • A sign on a mountain road in the Ladakh region of the Himalayas in India reads: "Because of global warming please beware avalanche can come anytime anywhere. (vox.com)
  • The county encompasses 2,120 square miles of the Edwards Plateau region. (texasalmanac.com)
  • T he country contains four geographical regions: a coastal plain and a central plateau, which is bordered by two north-south mountain ranges. (cp-pc.ca)
  • With declining trends for some native species on neighbouring islands, the increasing and stable trends on Aguiguan is good news for forest bird populations in the region, as Aguiguan populations can help support conservation efforts on other islands in the archipelago. (cambridge.org)
  • Cross species transmission in raccoon rabies enzootic regions increased dramatically during the study period. (cdc.gov)
  • Both of Lebanon's mountain ranges have alpine climates and receive enough snowfall for ski resorts to open from December to March. (cp-pc.ca)
  • The researchers found that for conserving global biodiversity, the mountain ranges of the world are of notable importance, as are large parts of Mediterranean biomes and Southeast Asia. (nationofchange.org)
  • Lone Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks were at the northern edge of their range at Southeast Park, Randall 6 Jun (BB) and Maxey Park, Lubbock 23 Jun (AH). (aba.org)
  • Titiwangsa Range, Malaysia Researcher: Niclas Burenhult This case study investigates landscape representation in the understudied and highly endangered Aslian languages, a branch of the Austroasiatic stock spoken in the Malay Peninsula, Southeast Asia. (lu.se)
  • 100 Northeastern Naturalist Vol. 14, No. 1 Sylvilagus obscurus occupies high elevations in a mosaic of habitat refugia throughout its range (Chapman and Stauffer 1981, Chapman et al. (eaglehill.us)
  • The area is very mountainous, with elevations ranging from sea level to almost 900 m. (lu.se)
  • The valley experiences a fluctuating but moderate temperature range: afternoons can reach 30 C, then drop to 8 C hours later. (cp-pc.ca)
  • The area of the Great Plains north through central Canada, a region referred to as the continental craton, seems to be the ancient core of North America and appears to be almost 4 billion years old. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Learn fascinating facts about the country, the people, the climate and the region where our farms are located. (dole.com)
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada led the development of all-bird conservation strategies in each of Canada's Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) by drafting new strategies and integrating new and existing strategies into an all-bird framework. (canada.ca)
  • It extends from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram range to the north to the main Great Himalayas to the south. (wikipedia.org)
  • On average, the cost of the procedure in Mexico can range from $5,000 to $10,000, depending on various factors such as the surgeon's experience, the hospital facilities, and additional services provided. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)
  • Average daily maximum temperatures range from 21 to 26°C in summer and 10 to 14°C in winter. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The average age of study participants ranged from 27 to 35 years and the mean BMI was 30-31 kg/m 2 across each group, with their lipid parameters in the upper range of normal. (medscape.com)
  • In the autumn of 1992, the weather phenomenon known as El Niño caused heavy precipitation in the Four Corners region of the United States, hypothetically resulting in the increased growth of berries, seeds, and nuts. (medscape.com)
  • its breadth, which averages about 50 m., ranges from a maximum of 160 m. to a minimum of about 22 m. (wikisource.org)
  • Crystal-clear underwater visibleness and also hot water temps (averages range between sixty seven to seventy two degrees) make that a particularly attractive dive place, and a top place to go for large-game fishing. (bartleby.com)
  • Most of the ecoregion is in central Laos, with a small portion on the eastern edge of the higher ridge of Annamite Range in Vietnam. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bundelkhand, which was home to the Chandela Rajput clan, is a region in central India. (indianetzone.com)
  • 1 Ae (Adm) dentatus, Central plateau Kenya (39). (cdc.gov)
  • 2007 NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST 14(1):99-110 Seasonal Home Range and Diurnal Movements of Sylvilagus obscurus (Appalachian Cottontail) at Dolly Sods, West Virginia Kelly A. Boyce1,* and Ronald E. Barry1 Abstract - The purpose of the study was to estimate seasonal home ranges of Sylvilagus obscurus (Appalachian cottontail) within dense ericaceous and coniferous cover at its type locality, the Dolly Sods Scenic Area in West Virginia. (eaglehill.us)
  • The Appalachian cottontail, similar to S. transitionalis to the north, has experienced a decline throughout its range over the last half century (Chapman et al. (eaglehill.us)
  • Next, it slid under the Nevada Plano, an uplifted, high plateau region in what is now Nevada. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • The east region receives a low temperature of 23°F (-5°C) in January, while night temperature remains between -10°F (-23.3°C) to -20°F (-28.9°C). High-speed winds 40 to 50 miles per hour also occur in winter. (mapsofworld.com)
  • With plants included in the analyses, some areas that may be have been overlooked were revealed as high-priority conservation areas, such as the Cerrado grasslands in Brazil, the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa, and Western Australia. (nationofchange.org)
  • Seeds germinated over a range of 10-30 C, with optimum germination at 25 C. High temperature markedly restricted germination, with no germination occurring at 35 C. Crofton weed was moderately photoblastic, with 17% germination occurring in the dark. (bioone.org)
  • Argentina's vast geography can be divided into four different regions: the North, the Andes mountain ranges, the Pampas (flat plains), and Patagonia, a plateau with cliffs. (worldatlas.com)
  • The geography of the region is diverse with two mountain ranges - the Western and Eastern Ghats, bordering the plateau heartland. (earth.com)
  • While different Spanish colonies bordered them, the colony of Brazil remained large and unified because of shared language and culture, and because the Portuguese crown kept in contact with all the regions for trade. (worldatlas.com)
  • The region relied on the economic power that was the city of Buenos Aires at the time, which kept the large colony from fracturing, paving the way for a large country upon independence in 1816. (worldatlas.com)
  • In this region, the Paraná River is called Grande River and its catchment forms a large "amphitheater" facing north, towards the São Francisco catchment. (copernicus.org)
  • Stevens and Barry (2002) reported comparatively large (1.4-9.0 ha) 95% adaptive kernel (AK) home ranges of radio-tracked S. obscurus in western Maryland. (eaglehill.us)
  • A comparatively large region, its landscape is varied, and three different settings will be focused on. (lu.se)
  • The westernmost part of the state, between the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River and western valley of the Tennessee River, is a region of gently rolling plains sloping gradually from 200 to 250 feet in the west to about 600 feet above sea level in the hills overlooking the Tennessee River. (etsu.edu)
  • The western region is typically flat. (texasalmanac.com)
  • A map of the sampled region in the Western Himalayas showing potential avalanche slopes. (vox.com)
  • The western part of the state is mild and humid, while the eastern region of the Cascade Range is cooler and drier. (mapsofworld.com)
  • They then fed their measurements into a computer model and constructed a record of avalanches in the region going back 150 years. (vox.com)
  • In two locations credible evidence for pre-Clovis settlement exists: the eighteen-thousand-year-old Cooperton mammoth remains in Kiowa County, and the Burnham site in Woods County with a suite of relevant radiocarbon dates ranging from 28,000 to 32,000 years ago. (okhistory.org)
  • The plateauing of international funding in recent years has triggered a slowdown in both the delivery of malaria commodities and the expansion of interventions. (who.int)
  • In this respect, our cartographic database will provide baseline information for a participatory prospective exercise performed with local stakeholders of the Grenoble region, aiming to support sustainable land management and planning. (openedition.org)
  • The disease has a global distribug baseline information about the disease prior tion in most regions where sheepgrearing is to the possible implementation of a regional a major industry. (who.int)
  • Levels of serum lipids from baseline to week 12 fell to a greater extent with pemvidutide treatment than with placebo, in the range of -27% for total cholesterol in the two highest dose groups, -25% for LDL-cholesterol for those groups, -37% for triglycerides for the 1.2- and 1.8-mg groups, and reductions in apolipoprotein B were seen. (medscape.com)
  • The eastern part of Turkmenistan is a plateau. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Waikato's eastern boundary is the Kaimai Range, which runs south from Te Aroha, separating the Thames valley from the Bay of Plenty. (teara.govt.nz)
  • We have reported an overall 1.7% regions in the south and west. (who.int)
  • We describe landscape changes in the context of a rapidly urbanizing mountain region, around the city of Grenoble in the French Alps. (openedition.org)
  • Previous work on Jahai shows that landscape lexicon can be organized according to elaborate models which structure and connect a range of grammatical classes and semantic resources. (lu.se)
  • This section of the plateau is about 47 miles (75 kilometers) wide and meets up with the Al-Idrisi Montes mountain range. (extremetech.com)
  • The grains that form the dunes are most likely tiny particles of frozen methane that come from that nearby Al-Idrisi Montes mountain range. (extremetech.com)
  • The obtained Seppômen maps demonstrate that near the drainage elbow point the relief was about 400 m higher than it is now, configuring an old drainage divider along the quartzite mountain range. (copernicus.org)
  • The Aras River marks the northern limit of this geopark located in northwestern Iran at the southern end of the Lesser Caucasus Mountain range . (mediamonitors.net)
  • This mountain range acts as a natural barrier. (mediamonitors.net)
  • The state divides into several geographic regions based on natural and land features. (mapsofworld.com)
  • The regions inaccessibility during the Soviet area only augmented this reputation. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Agricultural areas are somewhat prevalent in the southern portion of the region and in the less rugged areas of the rest of the BCR. (canada.ca)
  • Fifty-percent AK core areas ranged from 0.9-2.5 ha during the leaf-on season and 0.1-2.5 ha during the leafoff season. (eaglehill.us)
  • There are small geothermal areas throughout the region. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The structure has two main regions - one with greater GLP-1 specificity and the other with greater glucagon specificity, and these two areas are linked by a propriety technology called a EuPort ™ domain. (medscape.com)
  • This expanse is composed of nitrogen ice, Telfer and his colleagues examined Sputnik Planitia in detail, finding a region of distinctive ripples, the dunes of Pluto which you can see in the image above. (extremetech.com)
  • The present-day zoogeographical regions generally emerged during the Miocene/Pliocene boundary ( ca . 5 Ma). (nature.com)
  • The Hakarimata and Taupiri ranges create a boundary between the middle and lower reaches of the Waikato River. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In the region of the low divider, on the top of a hill located in the paleo-valley on the São Francisco catchment side, next to the current headwaters of its tributaries, a pebbly fluvial Pleistocene unit (deposit of ancestral river before the beginning of the incision stage or being and old terrace) indicates that a major river flowed by the actual divide, in the past. (copernicus.org)
  • Its major tributary, the Waipā River, rises in the Rangitoto Range in the King Country. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The study from lead author Matt Telfer focuses on photos taken of the Sputnik Planitia region of Pluto. (extremetech.com)
  • A new study has mapped out the regions where conservation actions can maximize the protection of biodiversity, carbon stocks, and water, while a separate study has identified regions of the world where land animals are most at threat. (nationofchange.org)
  • salicifolius , are narrowly restricted in either habitat or range [ 7 , 89 ]. (usda.gov)
  • Spirit has found evidence in the region it is exploring that water in some form has altered the mineral composition of some soils and rocks. (astronomy.com)
  • People are more commonly drinking bottled water and juices which also are coming from other regions. (cdc.gov)
  • These processes have been proved to facilitate dispersal and vicariance for many lineages that might increase or decrease the number of taxa common to different regions 19 , and ultimately alter their pairwise faunistic relationships over time. (nature.com)
  • TB incidence decreased in Egypt over the last two decades, but treatment outcomes were unsatisfactory, with variations across the different regions. (who.int)
  • This region is defined as Division 1 (East Tennessee). (etsu.edu)
  • Because the context is uncertain and the comparable sites are absent in Oklahoma and the surrounding region, archaeologists have difficulty characterizing these peoples' ways of life. (okhistory.org)
  • Bird conservation strategy for Bird Conservation Region 14 in Quebec Region: Atlantic northern forest (PDF, 3.33 MB). (canada.ca)
  • Map of the Bird Conservation Regions (BCR's) of Canada with BCR 14 QC highlighted. (canada.ca)
  • The following legend appears in the top right corner of the map: "Bird Conservation Regions of Canada. (canada.ca)
  • Foods are grown all over the country and thus, their constituents, more likely than not, have come from another region, in some cases, from another country. (cdc.gov)
  • Intermediate morphological forms occur at the edges of the varieties' geographic ranges [ 78 ]. (usda.gov)
  • dramatic literature: The range of dramatic forms and styles: …dramatic writing is the so-called readers' theatre, in which actors read or recite without decor before an audience. (britannica.com)
  • Tibet is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the 'Roof of the World. (iloveindia.com)
  • WHO's World malaria report 2012 contains the latest available data from WHO's regions, and a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the impact of malaria interventions around the world. (who.int)
  • The region is about 350 km long, and is at most about 150 km wide. (wikipedia.org)
  • You can choose from a wide range of deals and discounts offered by Thrillophilia that will make your trip budget-friendly. (thrillophilia.com)
  • The instrument for creating a Constitution was a Constituent Assembly, a body of persons representing as wide a range of interests as possible. (countercurrents.org)
  • Another 22 people were killed in avalanches after an earthquake struck the region in 2015. (vox.com)
  • The region is often regarded as exotic because its association with the Silk Road, the Great Game, and cultures and people that Westerners have traditionally known little about. (factsanddetails.com)
  • People who live in different geo-climatic regions have different ways of living. (countercurrents.org)
  • The subdistrict is heavily forested, being covered with tropical dry and moist deciduous forest, although agricultural land is scattered throughout the region. (lu.se)