Qinling
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To the north is the densely populated Wei River valley, an ancient center of Chinese civilization. To the south is the Han River valley. To the west is the line of mountains along the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. To the east are the lower Funiu and Dabie Mountains, which rise out of the coastal plain.
The northern side of the range is prone to hot weather, the rain shadow cast by the physical barrier of the mountains dictating that the land to the north has a semi-arid climate, and is consequently somewhat impoverished in regard to fertility and species diversity. Furthermore, the mountains have also acted in the past as a natural defense against nomadic invasions from the north, as only four passes cross the mountains. In the late 1990s a railway tunnel and a spiral were completed, thereby easing travel across the range.
The highest mountain in the range is Mount Taibai at , which is about west of the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an. Three culturally significant peaks in the range are Mount Hua (), Mount Li (), and Mount Maiji ().
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14by Chelsea Hopkins, Sai-Chuen Fu, Kai-Ming Chan, Göran Friman, Qin Ling, Christer G. RolfGet full text
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19by Xiaozhu Zhai, Zhengfei Yang, Guanghui Zheng, Tao Yu, Peng Wang, Xuefen Liu, Qin Ling, Longyuan Jiang, Wanchun TangGet full text
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