alpine forests
High-altitude tree zones
Alpine forests are woodlands found at high elevations on mountain slopes, typically characterized by cold-hardy conifers like spruce, fir, and pine.
These forests thin out as altitude increases, eventually giving way to treeless alpine meadows and tundra above the tree line.
The trail wound through dense alpine forest before emerging above the timberline.
- firCone-bearing evergreen genus
- conifersCone-producing trees
- mountain goatsCliff-dwelling hooved mammals
- larchDeciduous coniferous tree
- old growthUndisturbed ancient forest
altitude · mountain air · spruce · tree line · timber line · snowpack · sedges · ptarmigans · carbon sequestration · permafrost · mosses · endemic species · lichens · marmots · pika · pine needles · steep · biodiversity hotspots
- RockiesRocky Mountain National Park, Continental Divide, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
- European wildernessCarpathian Mountains, Pyrenees, Scottish Highlands, Norwegian fjords, gray wolf
- mountainsmountain, peaks, peak, summit, summits
- Swiss AlpsMatterhorn, Eiger, Dom, Grindelwald, St. Moritz
- aspen forestsquaking aspen, trembling aspen, white bark, golden leaves, fall foliage
alpine foreststropical rainforests
Warm, wet forest ecosystems
jungle · tropical forests · Amazon rainforest · Congo rainforest · cloud forests
alpine forestsdense jungle
alpine tundra · alpine meadows · treeline · desert · grasslands