How To Use Lowland In A Sentence

The natural vegetation on most of it is tall lowland forest, with shorter montane forests at higher elevations.
The region is an interior lowland sheltered from direct marine influences.
Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs.
Although Mitchell grasses (Astrebla spp.) may be common along drainage lines in adjacent lowland ecoregions (Gulf Plains and Channel Country), it is only in the downs that Mitchell grasses dominate regional vegetation. Mitchell grass downs
The moist eastern slopes of the Andes tumble to dank, humid, jungle lowlands whose rivers are the highways for transportation.

Habitat and Ecology: In lowland broad - leaved evergreen forest. Flowering: Aug.
The area encompasses zones of subarctic mountain birch forest in the lowlands, heather and grassland higher up, and mountainous alpine terrain at the highest altitudes.
But could the platforms, seen as extensive patterning in aerial surveys of the Maya lowlands just as likely have formed naturally?
Because of its size, tasty meat, valuable leather, and rapid reproduction, the capybara is a candidate for both ranching and intensive husbandry throughout the hot and humid lowland tropical regions of Latin America. 15 Agouti
Lowland anoas spend most of their time in shady forests and they are most active in the morning and afternoon.
The eastern plains, or llanos, account for 60 percent of the country's territory and are sparsely populated, as are the coastal lowlands.
The terai is the lowland band along the long southwestern edge of the country, part of the plain of the River Ganges. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.
To the west lie the Bordeaux lowlands and the Gironde Estuary, to the south the plains of Languedoc, and to the east the Rhône valley.
The three Lowland infantry regiments, whose members have traditionally worn tartan trews for centuries, will be forced to wear kilts when the government's planned new Scottish ‘super-regiment’ is formed next year.
Cruttenden cites evidence that the Irish population there was almost inexistant before 1830 and that the Scots there were mainly from the Eastern lowland regions where the pattern is not observed, whereas there is documentary evidence that the Language Log
Occupying a 43 square kilometre patch of lowland, it's home to 155 orphaned and displaced simians who share 99.6 per cent of our genetic make up.
To find the snakes, he wades - barefoot - in the knee-deep water of the Venezuelan llanos, the lowland savannah that is flooded each year during rainy season.
Along the banks we caught sight of both of the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa.
The sago palm is an important foodstuff in parts of the lowland areas of Melanesia.
Yet this great expanse of lowland is almost ringed by the hills and mountains, most of which lie near the coast.
Lowland smith would hammer shoon on a Highland shelty. A Legend of Montrose
The topography of Kerala could be divided into highland, midland and lowland areas.
However, these forests contain numerous primate species such as several leaf-monkey species, slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pig-tailed macaque (M. nemestrina), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), the region's largest gibbon and found only in Malaya and Sumatra's lowland forests. Sumatran lowland rain forests
Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people.
In this image, dust plumes completely obscure the lowlands west of Bo Hai, and thinner dust plumes mix with clouds over the ocean. NASA Earth Observatory
Cichlids are mainly found in the lowland, freshwater areas of tropical and subtropical regions.
Highland areas would be reforested to create a filter through which rain and groundwater could be purified for use in the more populated valleys and lowlands.
Within Tanzania the area is important for retaining uncultivated lowland vegetation, for the arid and semi-arid plant communities below 1,300 m, for its abundant shortgrass grazing and for the water catchment highland forests. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
The Amazon estuary is a dynamic lowland consisting of Holocene (less than 10,000 years old) sediments surrounded by slightly older Tertiary deposits. Marajó varzea
The very warm and dry conditions had seen half of lowland winter barley crops harvested with winter oilseed rape not far behind.
At that time, the lowland savannas were settled by large numbers of farmer-herders who were ancestors to present-day Luo and Kipsigis.
Greystones Farm is a site of special scientific interest, with lowland wet meadow in which orchids flourish.
Drained by the Nushagak and other large rivers that flow into Bristol Bay, the lowland is dotted with morainal and thaw lakes. Bering Tundra (Southern) Province (Bailey)
He would willingly raid into the Scotch lowlands; but his courage failed him at the border, and he regarded England as a perilous, unhomely land. Memories and Portraits
The Angles eventually took the remainder of England as far north as the Firth of Forth, including the future Edinburgh and the Scottish lowlands’.
Yes, it makes Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls look like Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, but Mohombi isn't about furrowing brows, he's about fun with a capital bilabial fricative. Mohombi (No 845)
The word Canaan, as we have seen, meant "the lowlands," and appears sometimes in a longer, sometimes in a shorter form. Patriarchal Palestine
The north-east of England is a land where uplands and lowlands meet, and are never far apart.
Conflict, illegal mining, and the growing bush-meat trade have all contributed to a 70 percent population decline of the eastern lowland gorilla, according to conservation groups that announced the preliminary findings this week.
Sloping down from the Judean hills toward the plain of Philistia and the Mediterranean Sea is the Shefelah, or Lowlands, a section of Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
There has been much interest recently in the Scots’ language Gaelic, once the preserve of the teuchters in the highlands but now increasingly popular among the keelies in the lowlands.
Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms.
Habitat and Ecology: In lowland thick forest and on wet places. Flowering: Apr. - Jun.
The lowlands of the island are blanketed with muskeg, a type of bog up to 3 feet deep with a hard crust on top.
Resource depletion, environmental degradation, inequitable access to resources, tenurial issues, upland poverty and the continuous influx of lowland migrants into the uplands are among the current issues in natural resources management. Chapter 5
While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky.
Lowlands, plateaux, foothills, and mountain slopes suitable for viticulture occupy only seven per cent of Tajikistan's area.
These plants are mainly found in lowland areas/regions.
The linework follows the IBGE classifications of "lowland dense ombrophilous forest", "submontane dense ombrophilous forest", and "submontane open ombrophilous forest" within the parameters of these rivers. Tapajós-Xingu moist forests
Capture rates in lowland habitats were much higher during the wet season than during the dry season, reflecting the timing of movements downslope and back to breeding grounds at higher elevations.
A plum-throated cotinga, like the one shown above in a lowland rain forest, is one species of over a thousand that make Peru a birder's paradise.
This ecoregion has a mosaic pattern of climatic formations, such as dense drought deciduous lowland woodland, submontane woodland, and evergreen seasonal lowland forest. Lara-Falcón dry forests
On both sides of his family tree, his forebears were descended from so-called Scots-Irish immigrants lowland Scots and northern English who had displaced the Celtic Irish in Northern Ireland who began coming to North America in the late 1700s. Raymond Carver
In the east, the sparsely populated, flat to gently rolling eastern lowlands called llanos cover almost 60 percent of the country's total land area. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The rich lowland planter and the upland tobacco farmer have rubbed shoulders more or less amicably for a very long time.
As discussed in the introduction such deposits are difficult to locate because of extensive peat cover in the lowlands.
Many areas of both the highlands and the lowlands supported very dense populations prior to the Roman invasion.
To widen the valleys, however, it is necessary to invoke sediment transport processes that can remove the material from the valley floors, to redeposit it in adjacent lowlands.
Results from experiments with intact turves from a managed lowland New Zealand pasture in controlled environment conditions have demonstrated the following: that elevated CO2 results in an increase in net primary productivity, particularly below ground Newton et al. Swedish Tree Line « Climate Audit
Aimero Kassa farms the riverbank lowlands at the lake mouth. Nile River Dispute Heats Up
The Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: This 93-mile circumnavigation of the mountain traverses lowland forests and subalpine meadows.
Vegetation of the Telanca Plateau and central lowlands is a more open secondary forest, dominated by palms, such as Arenga pinnata, Caryota mitis and Arenga obtusifolia, which may occur in almost pure stands interspersed with taller canopy trees, such as Lagerstroemia flosreginae, Diospyros macrophylla, Vitex pubescens, Ficus sp., and Planchonia valida. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
Two at risk are great apes found only in Congo - eastern lowland gorillas and bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees.
In the lowland areas podocarps and hardwoods were predominant with kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) growing in swampy areas and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) on drier sites. Southland temperate forests
A well-documented and supported theory for the decline of the Maya central lowlands is the deterioration of trade routes. The Ancient Maya - A Commercial Empire
Most of them stay on the hillsides all the winter but if it turns very cold they will come down to lowland rivers. Times, Sunday Times
The UK Native Seed Hub will focus initially on plants of lowland meadows or semi-natural grassland like these oxeye daisies. Kew unveils native flower seed bank
Lowland smith would hammer shoon on a Highland shelty. A Legend of Montrose
It is demanding autonomy for the rich eastern lowland region where the natural gas reserves are concentrated.
In the lowlands of Serenje district is Ibolelo High school, 10 minutes drive through a gravel road from the boma.
Distinctive ebonies (Diospyros spp.) were common in dense clumps in the lowland forests. Sulawesi lowland rain forests
The water of the springs is as clear as crystal, except when rendered grumly by dashing rains, and is far sweeter and more palatable than the best filtered water of the lowlands. Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.
The clutter of towns and the populated lowland fell behind, and a feeling of space overtook them. LOST SUMMER
The study area is a fragmented landscape of lowland tropical rainforest surrounded by roads, cultivated fields and pasturelands.
There was no point cutting forests to expand plowlands if there wasn't enough dung to build soil or enough labor to spread it.
Rolling into the grey streets of the small lowland towns, past open fronted stores set in nondescript concrete slab buildings, the bus was transformed into a mobile drive-in restaurant. The bus ride from hell that I learned to love Oaxaca
a trysting with a Lowland hallion, who came with a token from '' --- he muttered the name very low, but I thought it sounded like my own. Rob Roy
Although the young are thickly covered with yellowish-brown woolly hair, the mountain anoa adults tend to have curly hair, while lowland anoa have straight hair or are hairless. 6 Wild Banteng
The Indica group is found in lowland paddies of the tropics.
She said the West Siberian Lowland indeed falls within a hot spot but added that whether thawing peatlands will accelerate global warming remains an open question.
The dolomitanus form is similar to falcozi, but it has the pronotal shape of lowland. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Elsewhere in lower forests, spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus (VU), giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis (EN) jaguar Panthera onca, ocelot Felis pardalis, margay F. wiedii, lowland tapir Tapirus terrestris (VU), white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus clavium, brocket deer Mazama rufina and northern pudu deer Pudu mephistophiles, and are found. Sangay National Park, Ecuador
The dark loamed valleys among the sandy uplands of the north, the prairies of the centre, and the lowlands near the Mississippi, are all made to yield the great staple. History Of American Slavery
In this image, pale gray haze obscures the view of the coastal lowlands near Bo Hai and the Yellow Sea. NASA Earth Observatory
The terraces of the Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains ecoregion comprise a large expanse of early-Wisconsin glacial outwash deposits (older than 73b, 73c and 73l) reflecting braided stream depositional regimes. Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)
The remains from prehistoric times show that the country was inhabited when the present Hungarian lowlands were covered by the ocean.
To the Pasadena, California-based management team, this set of channels debouching into the ocean-like dark lowlands were reminiscent of the Los Angeles River's terminus at Long Beach, California.
The region encompasses a variety of vegetation types including dense lowland rain forest, dense submontane rain forest, open-canopy submontane rain forest, and woodland savanna. Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
Geophyte diversity is remarkably high; the lowland and montane fynbos ecoregions support about 1,500 species, most belonging to the petaloid monocot families, notably Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, and Amaryllidaceae. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
But up in the mountains there are not these extensive areas of lowland tundra where all the birds and the musk oxen can live.
It includes the lowland to submontane, montane to altimontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, montane to altimontane beech and mixed beech forests, and mixed oak ash forests of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula. Cantabrian mixed forests
The local source can be divided into two categories: species that are characteristic of lowland rain forest, such as Dipterocarpaceae, Bombacaceae, and the genus Ficus (figs), and those that have a large global latitudinal distribution such as pines, Cruciferae (e.g., mustard), Theaceae (e.g., tea), and tree ferns. Sumatran montane rain forests
On ‘Blues for the Lowlands’ Terry and McGhee show why they became so popular during the folk revival of the 50s.
The traditional habitat of the Alsatian lowland consists of houses constructed with walls in half-timbering and cob and roofing in flat tiles.
This is best exemplified in the distribution of the freshwater fish fauna, where the lowland streams have the highest species richness, the second peneplain fewer, and the upper peneplain streams support a limited fish fauna. Sri Lanka montane rain forests
For example, the Mackenzie and Yukon are both erosional rivers, while the Siberian rivers are depositional, especially the Ob for which the drainage basin includes marsh lowlands [25]. Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
This region of dense tropical rain forest is situated on the lowland plateau in the central northern portion of the Amazon Basin in Brazil with tiny sections just touching Colombia and Venezuela. Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests
But cell phones also include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas.
The success of the crop can be partially explained by its ability to grow in diverse tropical environments, including the extensive and complex rainfed lowlands of south and south-east Asia.
Between 1555 and 1559 an influenza epidemic swept through the lowlands of England and Wales and killed around 200,000 people.
The lowland evergreen dipterocarp rain forest, which naturally occupies 31 percent of the island, is dominated by Agalai spp., Palawan rain forests
Most Spanish speakers live in the Pacific lowlands and central highlands.
The tops of the downs in Southern England still show the scars where primitive men fought their wars or grew their scanty crops; and in the lowland plains an unusual abundance of trees will show you where once a dense forest grew, or you may infer an impassable bog from a muddy field alongside some meandering brook. English Landscape and Personality
Then, what was a moderate uphill hike for Dan proved to be a desperate, brutal slog for me and my out of shape, lowlander lungs. Archive 2005-04-01
The Lowland Scotch has _donsie_, "unfortunate, stupid. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Eastern birds may migrate south, but western populations are more often altitudinal migrants, moving from the mountains into nearby lowlands in winter.
The mammalian fauna in the lowlands is typically Indo-Malayan, consisting of langurs (Semnopithecus spp.), Asiatic wild dogs (Cuon alpinus, VU), sloth bears (Melursus ursinus, VU), gaurs (Bos gaurus, VU), and several species of deer, such as muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) and sambar (Cervus unicolor). Biological diversity in the Himalayas
The semi-arid lowlands around the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria form a notable disjunction in the distribution of many vertebrate groups in northern Australia. Carpentaria tropical savanna
Finally, when military occupation of the entire valley proved unfeasible, the general decided to leave the lowlands to the southerners and to occupy all the highlands with his people, and in time the Highlanders became known as the Hakka, the Guest People, while the lowlanders were called the Punti, the Natives of the Land. Hawaii
Despite the apparently irregular urban configurations of most ancient cities of the Maya lowlands, at least some Maya centers seem to have been organized according to cruciform urban plans.
WCS partners with indigenous groups, private sector industries and national governments throughout Central Africa to reduce threats to the Western Lowland Gorilla.
Thirty bandsmen, from the Lowland Band of the Scottish Division, arrived back at their Edinburgh base yesterday after four months as medics in Iraq.
Lower-income people of the high altiplano and those of the tropical lowlands build their own houses with the same logic, but these houses differ in the ways their climates and regional resources would suggest.
Swamps, bogs, and lowland areas in general are wonderful places to explore once the water has frozen and a good base of snow covers the ground.
In the lowlands of Ecuador, Jivaro warriors traditionally used infusions of guayusa to purify themselves and their families before shrinking the heads of their slain enemies. One River
In fact, the most common lowland plants seen today are ginger and plumeria.
Marojejy, Andringitra, Anjanaharibe-Sud, Tsaratanana and Andohahela are significant sites in that they are areas where there is an intact elevational cline from lowland forest through to ericoid thicket. Madagascar ericoid thickets
Thus conservation programmes must involve integration between upland and lowland agricultural systems.
In the last one million years the ice sheets spread a layer of boulder clay across the lowlands.
Undulating coastal plains and other ungraded lowlands, underlain by permafrost, in summer form some of the tundra's wettest areas.
He confirms that the pillars are those of a burnt house in a burnt village, which the villagers allege was torched by lowlanders and forestry rangers.
In dry, open, lowland situations, the hairy and ringed Danthonias, D. pilosa and D. semiannularis, are common.
Did you know that fruit drips if juice on from to the fur of western lowland gorillas in wipe Gabon, it away they with a leaf? The Sun
Ms. Coelho, who not only can wax poetic about the female epiphytic cycad in the Botanical Garden's New World Lowland Rainforest exhibit or the incendiary Capsicum chinense peppers in the Edible Garden area but who also spars gamely with chipmunks on her own property, in Putnam Valley couldn't have been more generous with her time or patient with my level of horticultural idiocy. Growing Tomatoes With a Pro
If you take this 20 minute walk you will be rewarded by seeing the type of vegetation that once grew in the valley - lowland podocarp/silver beech forest, with large specimens of matai, miro, kahikatea and silver beech.
This was how she had dreamed it to be, the sharp crags of the Highlands and the Lowland's forever rolling green hills.
Tens of millions of people inhabiting coastal and lowland areas may be poling gondolas where they once walked.
We categorize land to designate its potential productivity; it becomes highland, lowland, borderland, outland, even wasteland.
A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream.
Geophyte diversity is particularly high; the lowland and montane ecoregion support about 1,500 species, most belonging to the petaloid monoct families, notably Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, and Amaryllidaceae. Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
Take a lake CRUISE to admire a lowland gorilla colony. The Sun
The north-east of England is a land where uplands and lowlands meet, and are never far apart.
In the south-eastern lowlands it is called sedapa or sedapak. On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman
These terebinthine stores were the property of the plantation lords of the lowlands of North Carolina, who correspond to the pinchbeck barons of the rice districts of South Carolina. Andersonville
The lowland forests of Indonesia are the largest tracts of land of their type threatened on our planet.
Personally, I am dividing my time between the Orange Culture, and the Wrecker Culture (*), but Lowland Scots Culture is beginning to creep up in appreciation, much like a blue bonneted border reiver upon some English cattle (*). Archive 2007-04-01
Athletes from lowland countries faltered while more acclimatised competitors broke world records. Times, Sunday Times
The forest east of the Appalachians had largely gone, to be replaced by pasture and plowland, and had been severely reduced between the mountains and the Mississippi.
The study area is a fragmented landscape of lowland tropical rainforest surrounded by roads, cultivated fields and pasturelands.
In the winter—tracks and packed-down trails in lowland needleleaf stands are signs of a winter yarding site. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
You can't lay out a fence line or shape a plowland or fell a tree or break a colt merely by observing general principles.
Did you know that fruit drips if juice on from to the fur of western lowland gorillas in wipe Gabon, it away they with a leaf? The Sun
But could the platforms, seen as extensive patterning in aerial surveys of the Maya lowlands just as likely have formed naturally?
The endemic rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris) and the world's only alpine parrot, the kea (Nestor notabalis) probably evolved from lowland equivalents. Southland montane grasslands
The green and fertile region, which is thus interposed between the "highland" and the "lowland" deserts, participates, curiously enough, in both characters. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
The mountain anoa is smaller than its lowland counterpart. 6 Wild Banteng
Figure 5 clearly shows that in most cases rainforest stands on highly nutrient-depleted ferralsols, acrisols, and podzols of tropical lowlands attain diversity indices above 90% of the theoretical maximum.
The dominant species on lowland flows are Fagraea berteroana, Glochidion ramiflorum, Arytera brackenridgei, and Morinda citrifolia with Metrosideros collina and Weinmannia samoensis becoming more dominant at higher elevations. Samoan tropical moist forests
a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands
I may be the only other person you have met who can visualize a DX-pedition to long wire Chinese longwave stations while sipping Lowlands whisky and, even so, that still kinda creeps me out. Oh yeah, and i like cheese
The Indo-Malayan lowlands are home to Asian elephants, clouded leopards, wild water buffalo, gaur, hornbills, cobras and geckos.
The dominant lowland trees are rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), and southern rata or ironwood (Metrosideros umbellata). Rakiura Island temperate forests
The facility was established in 1817 in the lowland area, but was mothballed six years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), pale field-rat (Rattus tunneyi), golden-backed tree-rat, and golden bandicoot have declined, especially in the lower rainfall lowland portions of this ecoregion. Kimberly tropical savanna
The isotopic composition of condensed fumarolic steam is consistent with these temperatures and implies that the source water is derived primarily from either lowland meteoric waters or fossil Red Sea water, or both. Geothermics Abstract
They favored the tropical coastal lowlands such as Veracruz, Yucatan and parts of Oaxaca, where the climate and landscapes were more familiar to them than the high interior plateaux of central Mexico. Did You Know? Blacks outnumbered Spaniards until after 1810
But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time, they have remained essentially predatory.
Possums have caused the widespread death of kamahi and rata in lowland forests and the death of kaikawaka (Libocedrus bidwillii) and Hall's totara (Podocarpus hallii) in the southern ranges. Northland temperate forests
Mr. Crosbie was not deterred by the difficulty of the task before him, and undertook the redistribution of his tenantry, on the anti-rundale system, and by degrees succeeded in planting the surplus population of the lowlands upon the higher ground. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
Terrain: Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast. Venezuela
The large areas of woodland, moors, marshlands and lowlands around east Lancashire were obviously difficult to manage from the castle.
One area within this ecoregion that has been well-studied is the level Casiquiare peneplain (lowland) in Venezuela which hosts a mosaic of forests, savannas, and other types of herbaceous vegetation. Negro-Branco moist forests
VenezuelaAndes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast Terrain
From the lowlands of the south to the rugged peaks in the north, Derbyshire has something for everyone.
His groom of the chambers had scarce lighted a pair of torches, and Montrose himself had scarce risen from his couch, when two men entered, one wearing a Lowland dress, of shamoy leather worn almost to tatters; the other a tall upright old Highlander, of a complexion which might be termed iron-grey, wasted and worn by frost and tempest. A Legend of Montrose
Cash on the barrelhead might still be the ultimate seduction for a girl from the lowlands of Louisiana, no matter how wealthy and sophisticated she had become. Georgia Jeffries: Performance Art
The new shrew is presently only known from mid montane and lowland rainforests of Sinharaja. Archive 2008-03-01
Highland areas would be reforested to create a filter through which rain and groundwater could be purified for use in the more populated valleys and lowlands.
Coherent ice-flow lines reconstructed from bedforms across the Irish lowlands indicate contemporaneity of drumlinization and moraine building in eastern and western Ireland.
Mountain ewes produce less lambs than their lowland counterparts and fetch a lower prices at the mart.
It is believed that the hardest-hit areas will be on the mainland, especially the lowlands.
The ‘devil dancing’ of the southern coastal lowlands developed from folk ceremonies to exorcise demons.
Scarlet and great green macaws (Ara macao, A. ambigua) nest in the lowland forests. Isthmian-Pacific moist forests
A natural extension to this was a scheme to move animals to the feed rather than the feed to the animals, with both cattle and sheep being wintered away from their own upland holding to the lowlands of the Vale of York.
The Altai is the major mountain range in Western Siberia biogeographic region and plays a central role in maintaining the hydrological regime of the Western Siberian Lowlands, by providing the source of the greatest rivers of Western Siberia - the Ob and the Irtysh Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation
The Russians gradually colonized the north, establishing Cossack settlements in the lowlands.
Just a single lowland river is classified as'high' quality and essentially undamaged. Times, Sunday Times
All this combines to produce a mutton with a unique flavour which is stronger and faintly gamey compared with lowland mutton.
On this moderate-to-strenuous trip, we'll walk the pastoral lowland glens along the banks of exquisite Loch Lomond to the great Scottish Highlands.
The mural was found at a Maya ceremonial site called San Bartolo, in Guatemala's Petén lowlands.
Belgium's major geographic divisions are the coastal lowlands, the central plain, and the high plateau of the Ardennes.
Eastern leaders charge that Mr. Morales is implementing "Plan Vinto," a strategy calling for Indians toencircle lowland cities that was drafted more than a decade ago by an indigenous highland group calledTupac Katari. Archive 2007-08-01
Then we'd slip into the Kuskokwim lowlands, where the river carves channels through square-mile gravel bars and unravels in braids until it flows into the larger Aniak. Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska
In KSNP there are three main soils: podsols, erodable and infertile, are dominant, latosols in the lowlands are somewhat more fertile, and in the volcanic uplands, moderately to highly fertile andosols are common. Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia
Barred Owls can be found year-round in most lowland and montane forests throughout Washington.
The success of the crop can be partially explained by its ability to grow in diverse tropical environments, including the extensive and complex rainfed lowlands of south and south-east Asia.
Between 1969 and 2000, 85 per cent of lowland and mountain subtropical dry forests has been cleared (1. 2m hectares), according to a Zac (2004). Biodiversity 100: actions for the Americas
Despite the apparently irregular urban configurations of most ancient cities of the Maya lowlands, at least some Maya centers seem to have been organized according to cruciform urban plans.
Thus conservation programmes must involve integration between upland and lowland agricultural systems.
Nevertheless the fanatic lowlanders, propense to pillage and proselytizing, burned the Christian churches, massacred the infidels, and tortured the priests, until they provoked a blood feud of uncommon asperity. First footsteps in East Africa
The north-east of England is a land where uplands and lowlands meet, and are never far apart.
Slash-and-burn, or "swidden," agriculture - clearing patches of woodland for crops and moving on after each harvest to allow the soil to replenish itself - is usually seen as a crude antecedent to the more intensive farming practiced in the lowlands and most of the developed world. Boston Globe -- Ideas section
The western mountain section is lowland equatorial rain forest between 700 and 1,200 m, with transitional forest between 1,200 and 1,500 m. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
They had left the lowlands of the rivers and entered the rolling, heath-strewn, midland hills. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The civil centre of the barony was the great farm or grange, with its mill, for in the thirteenth century the Lowlands had water-mills which to the west Highlands were scarcely known in 1745, when the Highland husbandmen were still using the primitive hand-quern of two circular stones. A Short History of Scotland
West of the parkway, approximately 170 acres coinciding with the extent of hydric soils can be considered lowland forest based on depth to seasonal high water table. 2009 March 08 « Beachwood Historical Alliance
Behind the Shelf the land rose in cliffs and banks, up towards mistier heights lost in a blueshifted glare; and before it the ground fell away towards the Lowland. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Kukee, a 34-year-old western lowland gorilla, is thought to have died in the early hours of Tuesday morning after suffering from a short illness over the festive season.
It is part of an archipelago of peaks and plateaux, an isolated refugium covered by Guinean montane forest, which rises steeply above undulating lowland forest plains. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire

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