montane

Example Sentences

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Because of its size and severity, this high-intensity burn area will remain what is called montane chaparral for decades, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

But by noon, I had topped out in the moss-draped montane forest, a land of lichens and ferns and orchids and graced with sunshine.

From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024

The ecosystem types the scientists analyzed -- desert, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, montane wet forest, mixed riparian woodland and mixed conifer broadleaf forest -- cover about 70% of California's land area.

From Science Daily • Sep. 27, 2023

In West Africa, Perret's montane chameleon is endangered and the rhinoceros viper is vulnerable.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2022

The smaller inland and montane form occurs south through the Rocky Mountains, becoming slightly smaller in central Montana, slightly larger in southeastern New Mexico, and slightly smaller in western New Mexico and in Arizona.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.