Coal Tits from Asia follow Bergmann's Rule, being larger in colder regions ; those from further west, however, do not, as the birds from the uplands around the Mediterranean are larger than those from northern Europe.

By convention the Berkshires are confined to Berkshire County at the western end of Massachusetts, however geologically they are a westward continuation of uplands west of the Connecticut River and a southern extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.

The community, however, grew rapidly as a service and transport centre for the surrounding uplands and acquired a reputation for being ' the Wild West of west Wales ', reflected in the tongue-in-cheek appellation of Cowbois Crymych by which residents are sometimes known.

The granite-strewn uplands of Dartmoor National Park, United Kingdom, for example, provided ample resources for early settlers.

In the uplands the losses may have been due to increases in grazing density.

The uplands are used for sheep grazing and so the moorland is periodically burned to keep the growth of heather in check and encourage growth of grasses.

The principal farming activity in the uplands is sheep grazing, using mainly the Wicklow Cheviot breed.

Tsessebe are primarily grazing herbivores in grasslands, open plains, and lightly wooded savannahs, but they are also found in rolling uplands and very rarely in flat plains below 1500 m above sea level.

Many large granite plutons are the sources for palaeochannel-hosted or roll front uranium ore deposits, where the uranium washes into the sediments from the granite uplands and associated, often highly radioactive, pegmatites.

Undulating plains cover 75 % of Latvia's territory and provide the main areas for farming ; 25 % of the territory lies in uplands of moderate-sized hills.

Situated between 56. 27 and 53. 53 latitude and 20. 56 and 26. 50 longitude, Lithuania is glacially flat, except for morainic hills in the western uplands and eastern highlands no higher than 300 metres.

Except for the western ( desert ) banded gecko, which seems to be distributed only near water along the Colorado River, all of the reptiles found near the river also appear in the uplands, but in lower densities.

This location also has approximately of uplands to be used for container, vessel and equipment storage.

Although the way was open for settlement beyond the Pioneer Valley lowlands, the thin, rocky soil and hilly topography of uplands to the west delayed settlement until about 1725 when there was no more promising land left to settle in the valley.

(" high ") in the term for the standard language refers to " high " in a cultural or educational sense, while in the linguistic term it simply refers to the geography of the German speaking regions in Central Europe ; High German of the southern uplands and the Alps ( including Austria, Switzerland and parts of northern Italy as well as southern Germany ) contrasting with Low German spoken in the lowlands stretching towards the North Sea.

The uninhabited areas are characterized by dense forests in the northwestern uplands and lakes in the east, giving rise to the epithet, commonly used for Dalsland, of " Sweden's lake province ".

" Wold " is used as the name for various open rolling upland areas in the North of England, including the Yorkshire Wolds and the Lincolnshire Wolds, although these are, by contrast, chalk uplands.

The center of the bay is dominated by subtidal open water and extensive low-lying islands with areas of salt marsh, intertidal flats, and uplands important for colonial nesting waterbirds.

Sharing the neighborhood for 5000 years the people of the lake and the uplands.

They and other planters were eager to find crops for the uplands that could supplement their cultivation of rice.

This meaning is found in the names of various breeds of livestock, bred for life on the uplands, such as Rough Fell sheep and fell ponies.

The summits of the rest of the Canadian Cascades are not glaciated in the same way and feature rock " horns " rising from plateau-like uplands, with the Manning Park and Cathedral Park areas known for their extensive alpine meadows, as is also the case with the eastern flank of the US portion of the range.

) The main Lao government strategy to develop remote areas has been to push for “ economic integration .” This has translated into a policy of swidden agriculture eradication, which is commonly put forward as an important way to develop the uplands.

The region, which was merely dominated by shifting cultivation and subsistence agriculture for a long time, now opens more and more for using the uplands for multifunctional and commercial purposes.

* Linguistically and historically, it refers to the High German languages ( Hochdeutsche Sprachen ), or dialects ( Hochdeutsche Mundarten / Dialekte ), which developed in the Southern uplands and the Alps, for example, modern central and southern Germany ( Saxony, Bavaria, etc.

It was the market town for the scattered agricultural communities in the broad, fertile countryside to the south and the rich landowners with extensive holdings in the uplands to the east, the home of many sheep and few people.

Generally speaking, the term upland ( or uplands ) tends to be used for ranges of hills, typically up to 500-600m, and highland ( or highlands ) for ranges of low mountains.

Even today, the vineyards in the sunny slopes of the Lavaux cover about 25 hectares and arable and livestock farming in the uplands has a certain role in the employment structure of the population.

The last years of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century saw a reversal of the centralisation process that had taken place in the sixteenth: scientific institutes were set up in what became veritable campuses ; a new building to house the Arts and Philosophical faculty was built in another part of the city centre ( Palazzo del Liviano, designed by Giò Ponti ); the Astro-Physics Observatory was built on the Asiago uplands ; and the old Palazzo del Bo was fully restored ( 1938 – 45 ).

This was the period when villages were set up on uplands and fens, villages which became what we know as deserted medieval villages.

Villages situated on exposed uplands or upon clay vales where the soil became waterlogged bore the brunt of the changes.

The canals were designed with the bank on the outside of the marsh several inches lower than the bank on the inside, so that flooding will occur outside of the marsh first, but the amount of runoff flowing into the valley from the surrounding uplands was so great that this failsafe became ineffective.

Among the founders of the old communities in the uplands were the descendants of the families who fought the abusive Spanish colonizers in the settlements of Bugasong and Lawaan, Province of Antique, in the 16th Century ( their colorful folklore and the oral tradition of their historical journeys became a part of the timeless epic, “ Hinilawod ”).

Ben Rhydding, the name given to the establishment was also given to the railway station built to serve it and by which the village subsequently became known, is allegedly the ancient name of the uplands above Wheatley.

Xinomavro ( Greek: Ξινόμαυρο, English translation: " sour black ") is the principal red wine grape of the uplands of Naousa in the regional unit of Imathia, and around Amyntaio, in Northern Greece.

It is regarded as a minor food and fodder crop and is often grown as intercrop or mixed crop with maize ( Zea mays ), sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) or cowpea ( V. unguiculata ), as well as a sole crop in the uplands, on a very limited area.

Generally, ricebean is grown as an intercrop with maize, on rice bunds or on the terrace risers, as a sole crop on the uplands or as a mixed crop with maize in the khet ( bunded parcels of lands where transplanted rice is grown ) land.

As years passed, crop production decreased due to massive soil erosion in the uplands.

They cantered down the peninsula, not slackening until the coach reached Woodside where the Santa Cruz uplands begin.

The uplands and the lowlands made up the two main parts of the southern colonies.

The diet of the uplands often included cabbage, string beans, white potatoes, while most avoided sweet potatoes and peanuts.

Non-poor whites in the uplands avoided crops imported from Africa because of the perceived inferiority of crops of the African slaves.

In addition, unlike the uplands, the lowlands subsistence of protein came mostly from coastal seafood and game meats.

Blue Cranes are birds of the dry grassy uplands, usually the pastured grasses of hills, valleys, and plains with a few scattered trees.

Within the watershed are diverse landforms including mountains, arid plateaus, river valleys, rolling uplands, and deep gorges.

The lack of natural vegetation in the uplands and coast also contributes to soil erosion.

Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren desert and tundra areas.

Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the chalky uplands of Wessex.

Despite the deep erosion of the valleys, the surrounding uplands show little evidence of glaciation, suggesting that the ice was thin, or at least unable to cause much erosion at these higher altitudes.

The uplands region, between the Tigris north of Samarra and the Euphrates north of Hit, is known as Al Jazira ( the island ) and is part of a larger area that extends westward into Syria between the two rivers and into Turkey.

The terrain in these regions is bare, eroded, broken uplands, with sand dunes in the Qizilqum (' The Red Sands '; in the Russian form, Kyzylkum ) and Moyunqum ( in the Russian form, Muyunkum ( Муюнкум )) deserts, which occupy south-central Kazakhstan.

Temperatures range from highs around along the Mekong in March and April to lows of or less in the uplands of Xiangkhoang and Phôngsali in January.

With the exception of the coastal plains, the ice age divided Latvia into three main regions: the morainic Western and Eastern uplands and the Middle lowlands.

The highest elevation is 297. 84 meters above sea level, found in the eastern part of the republic and separated from the uplands of the western region of Samogitia by the fertile plains of the southwestern and central regions.

The surface of the state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast.