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Dikes protected the lowland from incursions of the sea.

The black-tailed deer, a lowland, west-side cousin of the mule deer of eastern Washington, is now the most common.

Finding the taro remains were very important, because it meant that it must have been planted there, brought from the lowlands, because taro doesn't grow naturally in the highlands.

Rathje’s hypothesis probably explains part of the complex process of Mayan state formation, but it suffers from the objection that suitable alternative raw materials can be found in the lowlands.

For example, states have developed in places like the mild lowlands of Mesoamerica and in Egypt’s Nile River Valley.

These people exploited the landscape intensively, foraging on hill slopes for wild cereal grasses and nuts, while hunting   gazelle and other game on grassy lowlands and in river valleys.

A computer-generated view of the Martian north polar region shows the extent of what may have been an ancient ocean covering much of the northern lowlands.

And when game moved out of the lowlands in early spring, the expedition decided to return east rather than face possible starvation.

Soon all lowland landscapes were left far behind them.

But lowland species with no mountains nearby, such as those in the vast Amazon and Congo basins, will have nowhere to go.

In the below video segment from the television series "Life," you can see western lowland gorillas at a site in the Congo Basin.

Deer may move from high-elevation browse areas in summer down to the lowland areas in late fall.

A mountain range may emerge and gradually split a population of organisms that can inhabit only lowland lakes, certain fish populations might become isolated in this way.

He suggested that the lowland Mayan environment was deficient in many vital resources, among them obsidian, salt, stone for grinding maize, and many luxury materials.

How did it come about that farming developed independently in a number of world centers (the Southeast Asian mainland, Southwest Asia, Central America, lowland and highland South America,and equatorial Africa) at more or less the same time?

Great tracts of lowland country deforested by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer.

In lowland country almost any spot on the ground may overlie what was once the bed of a river that has since become buried by soil; if they are now below the water’s upper surface (the water table), the gravels and sands of the former riverbed, and its sandbars, will be saturated with groundwater.