Sakha can be divided into three great vegetation belts.
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31-21 kya was a cool dry phase, with vegetation belts lowering.
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Species found in the vegetation belts are different than these found in the equivalent areas of Western European mountains.
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Four vegetation belts surround the mountain, a boreal belt, a subalpine, an alpine and a subnival belt.
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Forest vegetation retreated during the Last Glacial Maximum and the ericaceous vegetation belt lowered by between 42, 000 and 30, 000 years ago because of the drier and colder conditions.