But after a cold winter in the southern uplands you may recognise that ending up on a human dinner plate is not so bad. |
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Based on the habitat preference of associated species R. eastmanii prefers the ecotonal habitat between the wet floodplains and the dry uplands. |
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Many hectares of uplands are planted in commercial plantations of Pinus taeda. |
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Springs can occur in uplands if zones of perched water extend laterally to cliff faces or other steep slopes. |
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They are characteristic of the granitic uplands or moors of south-western England and of other Hercynian massifs in western and central Europe. |
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And even in the south there remained regions, such as the Wicklow uplands, which were still Gaelic in social complexion. |
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He continued to be attracted to the Scottish uplands and became leader of the college hill walking group. |
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Nobody has convincingly explained how the birds, bees, flowers and hares of the uplands can coexist with a new influx of humans. |
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The surface itself is a barren desert of extensive plains, rolling uplands and mountains, dotted with impact craters. |
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Seas closed, uplands emerged, volcanic activity took place, and the entire continental margin grew by the addition of these new terrains. |
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In addition, extensive areas of marsh and bog covered parts of the lowlands in addition to extensive areas of the uplands. |
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Most lie along deserted hillsides in the uplands, just beyond the margins of modern agriculture. |
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Today's popular continental beef cattle aren't suitable for the uplands of the Dales. |
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West Yorkshire, with its urban areas fringed by countryside and uplands, faces a wide range of problems. |
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The county is predominantly heavily glaciated mountains and uplands with a coast of cliffs and bays. |
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This takes into account different farming conditions in different parts of the uplands, but there's still a lot to do. |
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The landscape of coastal Massachusetts is a mixture of wooded uplands, rocky outcrops, and long, low meadows that sweep down to the sea. |
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However, basement rocks can also be inferred from exposures in the uplands that surround the basin. |
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These magnificent trees once coved the uplands of Lebanon, just as Scots pines once covered the Scottish Highlands. |
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Blacktail Deer Creek is a third-order montane stream with a narrow, well-defined riparian area bounded by sagebrush and open forest uplands. |
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Both tree species are common in primary and secondary forests, from uplands to lowlands. |
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The north-east of England is a land where uplands and lowlands meet, and are never far apart. |
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Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms. |
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The Chase itself is a rolling chalkland landscape, with sheep scattering the uplands and mainly arable farming taking place in the valleys. |
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Dominant features of the refuge include freshwater marshes, lakes, meadows, alkali flats, rimrocks, and sagebrush and juniper uplands. |
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Tectonic uplands bordering active faults are usually drained by steep catchments feeding alluvial fans, adjacent examples of which coalesce to define continuous bajadas. |
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The winterbournes were flowing from the chalk uplands of Wessex. |
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These uplands preserve some astonishing Roman and prehistoric remains. |
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Thus, we start in the polar ice and tundra, move on to grasslands, thence to rain forests and marshes, then uplands, seaboards and maritime civilisations. |
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Continued erosion by fast-flowing water eroded the uplands to the north of the Gippsland Basin and covered the coal measures with sands and gravels. |
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Our guide, Mouha, glanced up at the trail that disappeared far into the ochre uplands. |
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There are more than eight thousand lakes, mostly in the uplands. |
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He said it was crucial to study the uplands because they had a distinct combination of agriculture, landscape, tourism, plus artistic and cultural inspiration. |
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Separated by the valleys of the north-flowing river Eden and the south-flowing river Lune, these two uplands were inhospitable places for early settlement. |
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Churchill used stories in wartime to cut through the nation's fear, though he never had to sell his sunlit uplands to a Generation X, oozing post-modern cynicism. |
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This group, which included scrambling shrubs to giant forest trees, flourished in wetlands, drylands, and uplands across the Pennsylvanian tropical zone. |
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The Paraguyan uplands have other woodland slope ecosystems, notably, those dominated by Anadenanthera colubrina on moist slopes. |
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The uplands support black and red grouse, mountain hares, raptors such as golden eagles and hen harriers, and some unusual plant species. |
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The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. |
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Mallards, gadwalls, teals, pintails, shovelers, snow geese, wood ducks, bluebirds and herons flock to these ponds and uplands to breed. |
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Rates and processes of mineral weathering in soils developed on greywackes and shales in the southern uplands of Scotland. |
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Much of the highest uplands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault in the Northwest Highlands and Grampian ranges. |
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The geography of Scotland is varied, from rural lowlands to unspoilt uplands, and from large cities to sparsely inhabited islands. |
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While most of the mountains and uplands are in the north, Dartmoor and Exmoor are two upland areas lying in the south west of the country. |
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If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. |
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Buck Island's uplands forest cover also includes frangipani, turpentine, Jamaican caper, manjack, Ginger Thomas, and water mampoo trees. |
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Northern England has a cool, wet oceanic climate with small areas of subpolar oceanic climate in the uplands. |
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They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills to the adjacent topographically higher mountains, hills, and uplands. |
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The hills are sometimes considered a part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland as they adjoin the uplands to the north. |
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I went specifically to hunt ducks, but the island harbors geese, and in the uplands, a shotgunner can find Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse. |
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In the uplands, wheeled vehicles were rare in the 18th century, and horses and sleds were still being used for transport. |
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The uplands and the lowlands made up the two main parts of the southern colonies. |
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The diet of the uplands often included cabbage, string beans, and white potatoes, while most avoided sweet potatoes and peanuts at the time. |
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In addition, unlike the uplands, the lowlands subsistence of protein came mostly from coastal seafood and game meats. |
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The chalk uplands run northeast into West Berkshire in the Marlborough Downs ridge, and southwest into Dorset as Cranborne Chase. |
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On poorer soil such as in uplands, animals are often kept more extensively, and may be allowed to roam widely, foraging for themselves. |
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The biodiversity that depends on these uplands is very special and very rich. |
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The term highland or uplands is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau. |
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At this time a series of isolated uplands existed across the British Isles region. |
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Other uplands the erosion of which would provide the source material for the Millstone Grit lay to the north and northeast of the region. |
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Floristics of a bottomland forest and adjacent uplands near the Tombigbee River, Choctaw County, Alabama. |
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Like most of the uplands across Wales, intensive land use activities have resulted in many habitats being either lost or degraded. |
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It is estimated thatWales' soil contains more than 400 megatonnes of carbon, the majority located within the uplands. |
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The surface of the state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast. |
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This shortened the growing season and made uplands unsuited to growing grain. |
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Plas Newydd is near one of 28 cromlechs that remain on uplands overlooking the sea. |
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Since then, a shallow sea has almost continuously existed between the uplands of the Fennoscandian Shield and the British Isles. |
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To the north are the Lliw uplands which are mainly open moorland, reaching the foothills of the Black Mountain. |
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They can also do a journeyman's job, hunting to the gun in the uplands as either a flusher or a pointer, depending on how they have been trained. |
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Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands. |
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Various techniques are recommended by Natural England and the RSPB to control bracken either individually or in combination RSPB Bracken management in the uplands. |
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The moorlands of the West Pennine Moors have largely escaped the extensive planting of conifers suffered in some other parts of the northern uplands. |
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The coastal uplands and a belt of Brigalow grasslands lie between the coast and the mountains, while inland of the dividing range are large areas of grassland. |
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All three were vital in increasing the transportation of iron, copper, steel and coal from the uplands of the county to the ports at Swansea and Cardiff. |
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Now gypsy moths are invading the Appalachian uplands, where white, red, black, scarlet, and chestnut oaks became kings of the forest when the chestnuts disappeared. |
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The first recorded human settlements were those of the Celtic tribe, the Brigantes, who farmed the uplands and lower reaches of the river in the late iron age. |
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Today it provides a water supply to several surrounding cities, and its steeply sided valley is an important communications corridor through the uplands of the Peak District. |
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Tin is smelted from cassiterite, a mineral found in hydrothermal veins in granite, and the uplands of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, were a particularly productive area. |
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The lowlands of the Lordship of Glamorgan were manorialized, while much of the sparsely populated uplands were left under Welsh control until the late 13th century. |
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The remnants of the Variscan uplands in France to the south were eroded down, resulting in layers of the New Red Sandstone being deposited across central England. |
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Soils on the limestone uplands are fertile, but shallow clay mollisols or rendzinas, which are vulnerable to erosion where they occur on sloping terrain. |
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At the heart of the country are the uplands of central Australia. |
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The uplands retain evidence of occupation from long before the Kingdom of Powys, and before the Romans, who built roads and forts across the area. |
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There was evidence the uplands had been used for animal grazing in the earlier Neolithic period and that people were beginning to cultivate cereals. |
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The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flat lands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines. |
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On 22 June 1283, Dafydd ap Gruffudd was captured in the uplands above Abergwyngregyn close to Bera Mawr in a secret hiding place recorded as Nanhysglain. |
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The uplands are surrounded by more fertile, mainly pastoral farmland. |
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He carried on the struggle for several months, but in June 1283 was captured in the uplands above Abergwyngregyn at Bera Mountain together with his family. |
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Apart from the uplands in the Lake District fringes, other Cumbrian Fells, and Cheviot Hills, most of the areas bordering the Pennines are predominantly lowlands. |
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The distribution of finds shows that humans in this period preferred the uplands of Wales and northern and western England to the flatter areas of eastern England. |
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