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You can see this elevational gradient playing out in other ways.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

“What’s novel here is that we’re documenting an additional shift in the elevational bands where those fires are occurring.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2021

The long-haired Louisville, Ky., band with the powerful grooves and instrumental hooks, led by Jim James, joins forces with Seattle's own psychedelic rappers Shabazz Palaces for what should be an elevational show.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2012

It must be owing to local causes modifying the climate: at 5,000 feet on the Dgin route, there are many elevational plants, indeed more than of subtropical.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

Here or a little below this the change in the vegetation commenced, the first elevational plants being Serissoid; Gaultheria, and Rhododendron commenced at about 3,600 feet on dry rocky eminences, which it always prefers.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William