subalpine in English

adjective
1
of or situated on the higher slopes of mountains just below the timberline.
The Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: This 93-mile circumnavigation of the mountain traverses lowland forests and subalpine meadows.
adjective
    alpestrine

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1. (Alpine Bistort) Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family) Subalpine, alpine

2. To clarify the taxonomy of subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.)

3. 4.1.3 Alpine Above the subalpine, lies the alpine zone.

4. Roughly a third of them grow in the subalpine or alpine zone.

5. Avalanche and glacier lilies, lupine, Bistorts and tiger lilies dance beneath stunted subalpine fir trees

6. Willows form the vegetative boundary (krummholz) between subalpine and alpine life zones in the Rocky Mountains.

7. Higher ignition probabilities were associated with the following cover types: subalpine herbaceous, alpine tundra, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.), whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.), Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.), subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.)

8. This project transverses the upper subalpine and the alpine life zone on Eagle Ridge, crossing the ecotone.

9. To facilitate this, we examined light availability and foliar N status of understory subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.)

10. Bighead knapweed is very difficult to control once established and is a threat to our natural areas, including subalpine meadows

11. Two-way indicator species analysis (TWINSPAN) was used to classify the data, resulting in eight forest cover types: ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), whitebark pine – subalpine larch (Pinus albicaulis – Larix lyallii), mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis), western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), and hardwood forest.

12. Within the mountain Altitudinal vegetation belts, the shift of forest tree lines and subalpine steppe belts to high altitudes constitutes an obvious response to global climate change

13. The effect of clear-cutting and woody residue removal on soil nonsymbiotic nitrogen fixation, as estimated by the acetylene reduction technique, was investigated on a subalpine fir (Abieslasiocarpa (Hook.)

14. Up north, Tuolumne Meadows is the jump-off point for a stroll through Bucolic Lyell Canyon, especially beautiful in early summer when its subalpine meadows absolutely glow with chlorophyll and wildflowers abound