Mountain Vegetation Animals. The higher up an animal lives the less food there is for it to eat. Mountain ecosystem complex of living organisms in mountainous areas.
Even so a wide variety of species make their homes in the mountains. The animals find it quite tough to consume these plants as they mostly grow in mountain cracks due to less sunlight. Mountains mountain habitats vary dramatically from the base to the peak of the mountains.
At higher altitudes harsh environmental conditions generally prevail and a treeless alpine vegetation upon which the present account is focused is supported.
The most common vegetation found in the mountain ecosystem includes herbs fungi algae grasses lichens etc. The higher up an animal lives the less food there is for it to eat. Mountain ecosystem complex of living organisms in mountainous areas. On the mountain tops temperatures are colder oxygen is scarcer and the sun is harsher.