Too high to be exploited for large-scale commercial grazing, this area takes its name from the predominant vegetation type, the puna.

The predominant forms of vegetation in the mountainous areas include pine, evergreen, oak, beech and juniper.

Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome whose predominant vegetation consists of grasses and / or shrubs.

On lateritic soils downslope, the predominant type of vegetation is a maxied forst of jarrah and marri, whilst on the highly exposed and frequently waterlogged summits, an open mossy herbland prevails.

The most predominant vegetation types on the range is sub-tropical rainforest and dry sclerophyll forest.

The predominant vegetation in this part of the province is Matorral Scrublands including thyme, esparto, juniper and the like.

The predominant vegetation in the west is " cerrado ".

Ecoregions in Australia are geographically distinct plant and animal communities, defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature based on geology, soils, climate, and predominant vegetation.

The predominant vegetation type on the mountains is chaparral ; however oak woodlands occur in some areas, and some of the higher slopes support small areas of coniferous forest.

Other fossils have provided evidence of how the koala has evolved in response to Australia's change from predominant rainforest vegetation to drier eucalypt forests.

In ancient times, laurel forests ( shoyojurin ) were the predominant vegetation type in the Taiheiyo evergreen forests ecoregion of Japan, which encompasses the mild temperate climate region of southeastern Japan's Pacific coast.

Short and tall tropical jungles are the predominant natural vegetation types of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Here, monocultural coniferous forest is the predominant form of vegetation.

Lake Fork Reservoir offers excellent fish habitat with 80 % standing timber left intact, and hydrilla, milfoil, and duckweed being the predominant vegetation.

Eucalypt forests, banksias and heathlands are the predominant vegetation elsewhere.

Because fresh water is scarce, trees are sparse and low scrub is the predominant vegetation.

In the sandhill environment, the sandy soil and regular fires result in pine trees being the predominant vegetation.

The vegetation changes as going up and down these mountains, but the Pine forests are predominant.

The predominant vegetation corresponds to the sub tropical dry forest.

Antimony is sometimes found natively, but more frequently it is found in the sulfide stibnite ( Sb < sub > 2 </ sub > S < sub > 3 </ sub >) which is the predominant ore mineral.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

Aachen's predominant economic focus is on science, engineering, information technology and related sectors.

Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.

Lately, the predominant use of the term " sexual orientation " is considered to reduce a whole category of desires and emotions, as well as power and connection, to sex.

The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather.

Agarose, the predominant component of agar, is a linear polymer, made up of the repeating monomeric unit of agarobiose.

In general rationalism is the predominant school of thought in the multi-national, cross-cultural Age of reason, which began in the century straddling 1600 as a conventional date, empiricism is the reliance on sensory data gathered in experimentation by scientists of any country, who, in the Age of Reason were rationalists.

In most areas of the Basque Country, the educational Model D, where all subjects are taught in Basque, except " Spanish language and literature " ( which is taught in Spanish ) is now the predominant model.

The predominant religion on the Cayman Islands is Christianity.

In compounds, curium usually exhibits valence + 3 and sometimes + 4, and the + 3 valence is predominant in solutions.

In Saudi Arabia, however, the Hijri System is predominant.

Critics of neoliberalism, at times, claim that it is the newly predominant form of imperialism.

The predominant wind direction is from the south-west.

Christianity is predominant among the city's population.

This book is extremely detailed and complex, and later the ideas were developed into the predominant Western view of the chakras by C. W. Leadbeater in his book The Chakras.

Their predominant member is leukotriene B4 ( LTB4 ) which elicits adhesion, chemotaxis and aggregation of leukocytes.

The Data Encryption Standard ( DES, or ) is a previously predominant algorithm for the encryption of electronic data.

They are the predominant race in Barsaive, and the dwarf language is considered the common language.

# Freshwater swamp forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, composed of trees with any mixture of leaf type and seasonality, but in which the predominant environmental characteristic is a waterlogged soil.

* Babylonian influence predominant in Mediterranean regions of Asia ( to 2000 BC )

The old Mediterranean port of Kotor is surrounded by an impressive city wall built by the Republic of Venice and Venetian influence remains predominant in the city's architecture.

A major antigen in these is a protein called Bet V I. Olive pollen is most predominant in Mediterranean regions.

The predominant physical type of upper Kinnaur in the Mongoloid though a few persons with Mediterranean features are also seen in the area around Poo.

Cassette tapes were a predominant factor in the growth of Mediterranean Israeli music in the 1970s.