Subnivean Environment
These processes continue throughout the winter occurring one at a time or all at once. The outcome has important outcomes for organisms living in this environment as well as the dynamics of the snow. For the organisms, the subnivean zone becomes a blanket that provides insulation from the elements and protection from predators. For snow found on mountain slopes the development of the subnivean zone leads to a weaker bottom layer and a dense top layer creating ideal avalanche conditions.
Read more about this topic: Subnivean Climate
Famous quotes containing the word environment:
“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others—into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one’s future.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)