Montane is a biogeographic term which refers to highland areas located below the tree line. Biogeography is the study of the distribution of Biodiversity over Space and Time. The term highland is used to denote any Mountainous region or elevated mountainous Plateau. The tree line or timberline is the edge of the habitat at which Trees are capable of growing Montane regions generally have cooler temperatures and often have higher rainfall than the adjacent lowland regions, and are frequently home to distinct communities of plants and animals. Temperature is a physical property of a system that underlies the common notions of hot and cold something that is hotter generally has the greater temperature Rain is Liquid precipitation. On Earth it is the condensation of atmospheric Water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall often making it to In physical Geography, a lowland is any broad expanse of land with a general low level Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
Areas above the tree line are known as alpine regions. For the climate of the mountains named the Alps, see Climate of the Alps.
See also
Afromontane is a term used to describe the plant and animal species common to the mountains of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. A cloud forest, also called a fog forest, is a generally Tropical or Subtropical evergreen Montane moist forest characterized by a Montane grasslands and shrublands is a Biome defined by the World Wildlife Fund. For the fantasy novel by L Frank Baum, see Sky Island (novel.Dictionary
montane
-adjective
- of, inhabiting, or growing in mountainous regions, especially cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline.
-noun
- Flora and fauna of a montane habitat.
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