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Introduction
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The Rocky Mountain forest region rises abruptly from the grassland plains.
As elevation increases, temperature and evaporation decrease and precipitation
increases, causing the P/E (precipitation to evaporation) ratio to rise
rapidly and the vegetation to change from grassland to forest.
