adjective
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At the foot of the Alps
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At or just below the tree-line
Examples of subalpine in a Sentence
The larger villages are mostly in the mountain region, but in many parts of the Alps the villages stand in the subalpine region at heights varying from 4000 ft.
The latter, on the other hand, assumes a greater importance and forms nearly the whole of the subalpine ranges.
The large baobabs that line the road to Camalou were good for Palearctic migrants, including woodchat shrike, tree pipit and subalpine warbler.
The willows are associated with an area of 6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands on steep, rocky and remote ground.
Erythronium pusaterii is yet another local endemic of the subalpine zone of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains.
Most of the current subalpine conifer forests are naturally regenerated second-growth forests.
On ridges and hill-tops, the dry heath grades to subalpine heaths.
Celmisia spectabilis - also known as cotton plant, shepherd's daisy, and mountain daisy or by its Maori name, tikumu -- is an subalpine perennial native to New Zealand.
With the exception of a few subAlpine districts near Bergamo and Brescia, the great Lombard plain is decidedly unpastoral.
The Subalpine is the region which mainly determines the manner of life of the population of the Alps.