"The alpine region starts at 10,000 feet which is about where the air starts to become noticeably thin. Since the air is thinner it makes it harder to adapt to the environment, but if they can then they get less competition. It is home to not very many species though the ones that are there are amazing specimens of evolution at its finest"...continues on Kasper's page>

Tropical dry forest can be found in some parts of Africa, South and Central America, Mexico, India, Australia, and tropical islands (Maui). Less than 100 years later, 90% to 95% of dryland forests have disappeared. More than 25% of the species of these ecosystems are on the Federal endangered species--Fauna: Palila is a Hawaiian honeycreeper, the oleander moth, white-tipped Dove. Flora: Coprosma montana (grows in dry montane and subalpine habitats.(Rainbow), Eucalyptus An’iliahl

(Crosses several zones)