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Bring out the relationship between climate and vegetation in the Mountain Biome.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Climatology

In the Mountain (Highland) Biome, vegetation is arranged by altitude rather than latitude. One slope compresses into a few kilometres of height the climatic and vegetation sequence that spans thousands of kilometres from the equator to the poles.

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  • Climatic Controls That Change with Height
  • How Vegetation Responds — Belt by Belt
  • Tropical Andes (Ecuador–Colombia)
  • Central Himalaya — the Indian case
  • Why the Belts Shift from Mountain to Mountain
  • The Tree Line as the Key Climate–Vegetation Boundary
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