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1. elevated (e.g., mountainous) land (同)upland
2. a vigorous Scottish reel

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1. 〈C〉《おもに複数形で》高地[地方] / 《the Highlands》スコットランドの北部および中部の高地地方

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For other uses, see Highland (disambiguation).

Kirifuri Highland in Japan

The term highland or uplands is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) tends to refer to ranges of hills, typically up to 500-600 m. Highland (or highlands) is usually reserved for ranges of low mountains.

Highlands worldwide

Probably the most known highlands in the anglophone world are the Scottish Highlands in the United Kingdom, the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. The Highland council area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and Britain's largest local government area.

Many countries have areas that are officially or unofficially referred to as highlands. Other than Scotland, these include parts Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Syria, Cantabria and Nova Scotia (the latter being Latin for 'New Scotland' due to its resemblance to the country).

Synonymous terms used in other countries include high country, used in New Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Southern Queensland in Australia, and parts of the United States (notably Western North Carolina), and highveld, used in South Africa.

Highland shrubs in Agua Fria National Monument, Arizona, USA

The highlands in Australia are often above the elevation of 500 metres. These areas often receive snowfalls through winter. Most of the highlands lead up to large alpine or sub-alpine mountainous regions such as the Australian Alps, Snowy Mountains, Great Dividing Range, Northern Tablelands and Blue Mountains. The most mountainous region of Tasmania is the Central Highlands area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. Many of these areas are highly elevated alpine regions.

A spine of mountains runs the length of the island of New Guinea, forming a populous highlands region.

The highlands of Iceland cover about 40% of the country and are mostly inhospitable to humans. They are generally referred to as land above 500 meters.

Additionally, the mountainous natural region of the Thai highlands is found in Northern Thailand.

The Cameron Highlands are a highland area and hill station in Northern Malaysia.

Other worlds

Highland continents – or terrae – are areas of topographically unstable terrain, with high peaks and valleys. They resemble highlands on Earth, but the term is applied to much larger areas on other planets. They can be found on Venus, Mercury, Mars and the Moon.

See also

• Planum

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English Journal

• Characterization of two paralogous myostatin genes and evidence for positive selection in Tibet fish: Gymnocypris przewalskii.

• Tong C1, Zhang C2, Shi J3, Qi H3, Zhang R1, Tang Y1, Li G1, Feng C1, Zhao K4.
• Gene.Gene.2015 Jul 10;565(2):201-10. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.04.009. Epub 2015 Apr 8.
• Myostatin (mstn) is an important member of TGF-β superfamily, a muscle growth inhibitor. Though mstn has been identified in many organisms, little is known about this gene in highland fish, Gymnocypris przewalskii endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. In this study, we first cloned two paralogous
• PMID 25861868

• Role of glutamate and serotonin on the hypoxic ventilatory response in high-altitude-adapted plateau Pika.

• Bai Z1, Voituron N2, Wuren T1, Jeton F2, Jin G1, Marchant D3, Richalet JP2, Ge RL4, Pichon AP5.
• Respiratory physiology & neurobiology.Respir Physiol Neurobiol.2015 Jul;212-214:39-45. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2015.03.006. Epub 2015 Apr 15.
• The highland "plateau Pika" is considered to be adapted to chronic hypoxia. We hypothesized that glutamate N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptors, nitric oxide (NO) synthase, and serotonin are involved in hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) in Pikas. We tested the effects of NMDA (memanti
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• Development and characterization of novel 8-plex DiLeu isobaric labels for quantitative proteomics and peptidomics.

• Frost DC1, Greer T2, Xiang F1, Liang Z1, Li L1,2.
• Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM.Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom.2015 Jun 30;29(12):1115-24. doi: 10.1002/rcm.7201.
• RATIONALE: Relative quantification of proteins via their enzymatically digested peptide products determines disease biomarker candidate lists in discovery studies. Isobaric label-based strategies using TMT and iTRAQ allow for up to 10 samples to be multiplexed in one experiment, but their expense li
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Japanese Journal

• エチオピア北部中高地のアファール牧畜民の食料摂取

• 沙漠研究 = Journal of arid land studies : 日本沙漠学会誌 27(2), 75-89, 2017-09
• NAID 40021384408

• Indigenous resource management practices in the Gamo Highland of Ethiopia : challenges and prospects for sustainable resource management (SPECIAL FEATURE : Sustainability Science for Meeting Africa's Challenges)

• Sustainability science : official journal of the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science 12(5), 695-709, 2017-09
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• Habitat structure determines spider diversity in highland ponds

• Ecological research 32(3), 359-367, 2017-05
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