Sky Islands information

Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found on the Mexican...

Mexico. The sky islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts. The northern west–east perimeter of the sky island region...

Island in the Sky or Islands in the Sky may refer to: Floating island (fiction), a fictional landmass that floats in the sky Island in the Sky (1953 film)...

designation of Sark in the Channel Islands as a dark-sky preserve and a collection of Roma Ryan's poems on islands. Dark Sky Island received positive reviews from...

Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue...

DarkSky International, formerly the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) is a United States-based non-profit organization incorporated in 1988 by founders...

Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank...

wetter than the Tucson Mountains. The Rincons, as one of the Madrean Sky Islands between the southern Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Madre Oriental in...

In science fiction, floating cities and islands are a common trope, which range from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the...

Sark (Sercquiais: Sèr or Cerq) is an island, part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is...

recording studio in 2012 to begin work on her eighth studio album Dark Sky Island (2015). Regarding a new album, there have been several mentions by close...

valleys and isolated mountains ("sky islands").[citation needed] Insular dwarfism is one aspect of the more general "island effect" or "Foster's rule", which...

pine-oak forests covering the surrounding mountain ranges and forming sky islands on some of the interior ranges. The Mexican Altiplano is one of six distinct...

become endemic on isolated islands are often those which have a high rate of dispersal and are able to reach such islands by being dispersed by birds...

Castle in the Sky (Japanese: 天空の城ラピュタ, Hepburn: Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta), also known as Laputa: Castle in the Sky, is a 1986 Japanese animated fantasy adventure...

Afromontane archipelago, as their distribution is analogous to a series of sky islands. Afromontane communities occur above 1,500–2,000 metres (4,900–6,600 ft)...

northwest Chihuahua and northeast Sonora contain insular sky island mountain ranges, (the Madrean Sky Islands), or smaller subranges in association. There are...

escaping summer's heat and cyclists, and has been recently designated as the Sky Island Parkway, part of the US National Scenic Byway system. 2010 saw the inaugural...

species will disappear from nature parks ('islands' in many senses), mountain tops and mesas (see sky islands), forest remnants or other such distributional...

of Lobelia columnaris Hook. f. (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) across sky islands of West Central Africa". Ecology and Evolution. 11 (22): 15860–15873...

Ramsey Lewis: Sky Islands. GRP Records. 1993. "Ramsey Lewis: Sky Islands (Contemporary Jazz Albums)". billboard.com. "Ramsey Lewis: Sky Islands (Jazz Albums)"...

MS Island Sky is a 118 berth cruise ship owned and operated by London-based cruise company Noble Caledonia. On 19 July 2021 it became the first cruise...

Mountains, the Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains. These create "sky islands" of cooler, wetter, climates adjacent to, or within the desert, and such...