(1) Alpine regions, lowland forests and wetlands all have characteristic species.(2) The topography of Kerala could be divided into highland, midland and lowland areas.(3) The study area is a fragmented landscape of lowland tropical rainforest surrounded by roads, cultivated fields and pasturelands.(4) lowland farming(5) lowland farming(6) In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.(7) Roughly made thonged sandals were worn only in lowland areas where the terrain was rocky.(8) Greystones Farm is a site of special scientific interest, with lowland wet meadow in which orchids flourish.(9) But up in the mountains there are not these extensive areas of lowland tundra where all the birds and the musk oxen can live.(10) It primarily grazes and rests on highland or lowland desert, semidesert or steppe.(11) The refuges were mainly areas of lowland rainforest that survived when savanna became more widely distributed in colder and drier episodes.(12) Rising sea levels for Tuvalu have created serious lowland flooding.(13) The valleys have not lost their character but agricultural and industrial changes have depopulated some areas and opened others to an influx of lowlanders seeking holiday and retirement homes.(14) To the west lie the Bordeaux lowlands and the Gironde Estuary, to the south the plains of Languedoc, and to the east the Rhu00f4ne valley.(15) Both tree species are common in primary and secondary forests, from uplands to lowlands .(16) Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms.