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    The document provides examples of subalpine ecosystems from various locations around the world including Switzerland, Hawaii, Abkhazia, Malaysia, Washington state in the US, and describes some of the typical flora and fauna commonly found in subalpine zones. Trees like Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, limber pine and mountain birch are mentioned. Herbaceous plants include Colorado blue columbine and sedges. Birds such as gray jay, pine grosbeak and yellow-rump warbler inhabit subalpine areas along with mammals including black bear, chipmunk and snowshoe hare.

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    The document provides examples of subalpine ecosystems from various locations around the world including Switzerland, Hawaii, Abkhazia, Malaysia, Washington state in the US, and describes some of the typical flora and fauna commonly found in subalpine zones. Trees like Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, limber pine and mountain birch are mentioned. Herbaceous plants include Colorado blue columbine and sedges. Birds such as gray jay, pine grosbeak and yellow-rump warbler inhabit subalpine areas along with mammals including black bear, chipmunk and snowshoe hare.

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    Goms Swiss Alps: Examples of Subalpines A Subalpine Lake in The District of The

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    EXAMPLES OF SUBALPINES

    A subalpine lake in the Goms district of the Swiss Alps

    A stand of mountain birch at around 750 m in Trollheimen, typical


    of Scandinavian subalpine forests
    Mountain birch (Betula pubescens subsp. ssp. czerepanovii) trees reaching 4-5m tall. The
    ground is covered with bilberry plants, and there are some Juniperus communis.
    Waimea Canyon, Hawaii is known for its montane vegetation.

    Pine forest in Abkhazia


    Relict pine (Pinus brutia var. pityusa) grove at Pitsunda, Abkhazia
    Tropical montane forest at around 2,000 m in Malaysia
    Montane tropical forest on Gunung Batu Brinchang (w:Mount Batu Brinchang), Cameron
    Highlands, Malaysia.

    Subalpine Fir in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, United


    States
    Subalpine Fir with Crystal Lake and glacier smoothed rock bluffs behind. Pt. 6796' is right of
    center. Subalpine zone
    Alpine flora near Cascade Pass
    The Triplets (center skyline); Sambucus racemosa (white flowers, left); other wildflowers.
    An alpine mire in the Swiss Alps
    Piz Segnas (left) and Tschingelhrner (right) from north. Cotton-sedge in the foreground.

    LIFE FOUND IN SUBALPINEs


    Trees

    Engelmann Spruce Subalpine Fir


    Limber Pine

    Shrubs

    Cinquefoil Wax Currant


    Elder Wood's Rose
    Vaccinium

    Herbaceous Plants

    Colorado Blue Columbine Heartleaf Arnica Pipsissewa Sneezeweed


    Fairy Slipper Lousewort Sedge Twinflower
    Gentian Needle Grass Senecio

    Birds

    Olive-Sided
    Blue Grouse Gray Jay Red Crossbill Williamson's Sapsucker
    Flycatcher
    Ruby Crowned White Breasted
    Brown Creeper Hermit Thrush Pine Grosbeak
    Kinglet Nuthatch
    Clark's Mountain Woodpecker (Downy
    Pine Siskin Stellar's Jay
    Nutcracker Chickadee and Hairy)
    Dark-eyed Northern Townsend's
    Raven Yellow-Rump Warbler
    Junco Goshawk Solitaire

    Mammals

    Golden Mantled Ground


    Black Bear Chipmunk Mule Deer Shrew
    Squirrel
    Nuttall's
    Bobcat Coyote Long-Tailed Weasel Snowshoe Hare
    Cottontail
    Bushy-Tailed Deer Yellow-Bellied
    Meadow Vole Pine Marten
    Wood Rat Mouse Marmot
    Chickaree Elk Mountain Lion Porcupine

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