The arctic periglacial environment represents a unique mosaic of unstable habitats (gradation between terrestrial and shallow wetland environments) where large variations in cyanobacterial and algal diversity, productivity, and life strategy exist [190]. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Extensive periglacial phenomena, such as solifluction fields, are still active at higher elevations. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Changing climates have also influenced landscape development, highlighted most recently by late Cainozoic and Pleistocene glacial and periglacial events. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The basin displays an array of periglacial and glacial forms which cover a wide range of phases of growth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Overall the climate of gentle winters and dry summers is mellowed by the cold Canarian current but a thermal inversion and the mountain's height isolates it from marine influences, and Las Cañadas has a harsh climate; freeze-thaw processes near the summit create active periglacial forms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Associated with these weathering processes are a number of unique surface features that develop only in periglacial environments. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some areas in the coastal range between 38°S and 40°S including specific places in Argentine Patagonia could have remained free of ice and periglacial processes that restricted the persistence of vegetation in the proximity of glaciers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Seppàƒ⣬àƒ⢺ New permafrost formed in peat hummocks pounus, Finnish Lapland, Permafrost and periglacial processes 9, 367-373, 1998. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Apparently, however, Homo erectus lacked the technology to settle in anything more than tropical and temperate latitudes, for it was not until the very end of the Ice Age that humans mastered arctic and periglacial environments in Europe and northern Asia, or ventured on boats to New Guinea and Australia. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Sadly, his stiff old bones were not able to resist the ravages of another harsh winter on the periglacial steppes. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)
The few people who inhabited those periglacial steppes had little opportunity to meet anyone new, and the excitement of this chance encounter would fuel discussions and fill the stories of Falcon Camp for a long time to come. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)
The long, wet, green spring of the periglacial grassland, gave bison, and several other animals, a long season for growing, which resulted in their heroic proportions. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)
They lived year-round in the northern periglacial regions of the steppes, where the cold was deeper but dry, and snow was slight, feeding in winter on the coarse, dry standing hay. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)
They would surely turn him out, and in the freezing cold night of the periglacial steppes there was no place to go. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)
Not a forest of the tall sturdy trees of warmer climates, these birches were stunted and dwarfed by the harsh periglacial conditions, yet they were not without beauty. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)
But more confusing were the changes in surface features wrought, in that frigid periglacial land, by permafrost. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)
The woolly mammoths were well adapted to the harsh periglacial climate of their cold environment. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1980)
The constant low pressure over the vast sheets of ice sucked moisture from the air, allowing little snow to fall in periglacial regions and creating a constant wind. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1980)
The species 'dispersal was relatively gradual with glacial survival in small favourable habitats in Western Europe (from Germany to Spain) while in the rest of Europe, because of periglacial conditions, dispersal was less regular with bottleneck events followed by postglacial expansions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
