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Nival financed and published external developers including KranX Productions, creators of King's Bounty: Legions and Bytex, developers of Berserk Online. In early 2005, the part of Nival operating under the name Nival Interactive was bought by Ener1 Group, a Florida-based holdings company, for around $10 million. On November 30, 2007, Sergey Orlovskiy regained full control of Nival Interactive. In early 2010, another part of Nival, Astrum Nival, was bought by the largest Russian portal Mail.

Ru for more than $100 million, becoming a part of Astrum Online Entertainment. Nival's internal development studios became focused on PC and mobile projects. In 2011, Nival Interactive was merged with Nival Network into a new company, called just Nival. Nival has developed and launched Prime World, King's Bounty: Legions and has several projects in development.

Nival was founded in 1996 as a PC game developer of stand-alone games. It started to self-publish games in 2005. In 2006, Orlovskiy created the Nival spin-off named Nival Online and raised US $20 million from Digital Sky Technologies (DST) to focus on online game development and publishing. In 2008, Nival Online was merged with Astrum and in 2009 sold to Mail.

Plants in the nival zone are scarce. They must be small to withstand the climate. The nival zone is the area above most vegetation. On Mount Kenya this area is usually above .

Nival decided to abandon the idea of microtransactions during early testing.

Allods Team is a Russian video game developer and a subsidiary of Mail.Ru Games.Allods Team – новое имя студии разработки клиентских игр Mail.Ru Group Founded in September 2006, it was previously known as Nival Online and Astrum Nival.

On February 24, 2010, Mail.Ru announced the 100% acquisition of Astrum Nival from its former owners. From that point, Astrum Nival acts under the name of Mail.Ru. On September 29, 2011, the studio was renamed to Allods Team.

In 2010, Digital Sky Technologies and 1C invested US$5 million to acquire a minority stake in Nival. In 2013, Nival raised US$6 million in its Series A funding round led by Almaz Capital. The funds will be used for global expansion.

In December 2013, Nival raised $6 million in its Series A funding round led by Almaz Capital. The funds were to be used for global expansion. In February 2017, Nival announced the world's first Neural Network AI for its game Blitzkrieg 3.

He recorded in the underground with artists including Kokromoti, Nival, Trigmatic, Vyroz, M.O.B and Osibo .

Promotion at IgroMir 2009 The company was founded by Sergey Orlovskiy on November 18, 1996 as Nival Interactive, and became famous as the developer of several successful role- playing and strategy series, including Rage of Mages (known as Allods in Russia), Blitzkrieg, and Etherlords, all of which would receive sequels. Nival also created the Silent Storm engine and developed several games using it, beginning with the eponymous Silent Storm series in 2003. Among these was Heroes of Might and Magic V and two add-ons, published by Ubisoft. Nival began to self-publish its own games in 2005.

A sequel was later made in 1999 by Nival Interactive called Allods 2: Master of Souls (Аллоды 2. Повелитель душ) and published in the west by Monolith Productions entitled Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer. An online MMORPG based on the game was released under the name Allods Online. It was published in Russia by Astrum Nival in late 2009, followed by other regions globally by local publishers.

Its mode is purely nival, tied to the snow melt of the Andean tops. Its basin has an area of , a little more than that of Switzerland.

Climatic zones include a forested temperate zone, a subalpine zone above , and an alpine zone above that constitutes the upper limit of vegetation growth. The nival zone starts at .

The biodiversity of the plants is due to the wide range of altitude zones and the complexity of the terrain. In the nival zone, above 3,600 meters, there is no vegetation at all. In the sub-nival zone from 3,000 to 3,500 the sparse and non-continuous vegetation is that of tundra: lichens, creeping willow, saxifrage. From 2,300 meters to 3,000 meters is low-grass alpine meadows (up to 30 cm in height).

Strong altitude zoning drives the plants in the reserve, with five levels (in ascending order): forest, sub-alpine (2,000 - 2,500 meters), alpine (2,500 - 3,000 meters), sub-nival, and nival (snow). The forest zone (34%) is dominated by pine, with an under story of juniper and rhododendron. The southern areas of the reserve are coniferous forest, and the lower floodplains of the Teberda River feature stands of alder. The alpine zones are alpine heath and meadow.

Nival is a Russian video game developer and publisher founded by Sergey Orlovskiy in 1996. It is headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, with development offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia.

Nival has stated that a third game isn't out of the question, but so far nothing has been announced. The game features a card-based dueling system that borrows heavily from Magic: The Gathering. While the game can be played in a pure dueling mode, the major appeal of Etherlords stems from the scenario mode which utilizes a strategy/adventure map, similar to the one used in Heroes of Might and Magic. Nival later became the developer of HOMM 5.

NIVAL (National Irish Visual Arts Library) is a public research resource which is dedicated to the documentation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish visual art and design. It collects, stores and makes available for research documentation of Irish art and design in all media. NIVAL's collection policy encompasses Irish art and design from the entire island, Irish art and design abroad, and non-Irish artists and designers working in Ireland. NIVAL is sustained by material contributions from artists, arts organisations and arts workers.

The Battle of the Frigidus was fought near the river, which was named Frigidus ('cold') by the Romans. It has the pluvial-nival regime in its upper course and the pluvial regime in its lower course.

Astrum Nival, the operator of the Russian regional server, has ceased game service on November 30, 2012. This marked the first time that a Granado Espada regional server has completely ceased service without any transfer to another local operator.

Of the 40 participants, only 26 finally reached the summit, the others having stayed back due to fatigue. Today several mountain huts serve as basis for summit ascents, though mountaineering on nival level can be dangerous in view of numerous crevasses.

Information is also acquired from galleries, cultural institutions, critics, the art and design industries, and national and local authorities responsible for the visual arts. NIVAL is housed on the campus of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin.

The Soča ( in Slovene) or Isonzo ( in Italian; other names , , or ') is a long river that flows through western Slovenia () and northeastern Italy (). An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, at an elevation of . The river runs past the towns of Bovec, Kobarid, Tolmin, Kanal ob Soči, Nova Gorica (where it is crossed by the Solkan Bridge), and Gorizia, entering the Adriatic Sea close to the town of Monfalcone. It has a nival-pluvial regime in its upper course and pluvial-nival in its lower course.

Modern carnival resembles the festival of the Navigium Isidis,Valantasis (2000) p.378 and some scholars argue that they share the same origin (via carrus navalis, meaning naval wagon, i.e. float – later becoming car-nival).Rudwin (1919)di Cocco (2007)Alföldi (1937) pp.

Subalpine grasslands occur from 1800 to 2500 meters elevation, and alpine meadows from 2500 to 3000 meters, interspersed with thickets of Rhododendron caucasicum between 2000 and 2800 meters, and areas of rock scree. Sub-nival plants and lichens grow from 3000 to 4000 meters elevation.

Mixed terrain on the Ortler's Hinter Arête, a classic high mountain tour A high mountain tour () is a mountain tour that takes place in the zone that is covered by ice all year round, the nival zone. High mountain tours require special preparation and equipment.

The Bača () is a river in northwestern Slovenia with a length of . It runs from Bača pri Podbrdu to Bača pri Modreju, where it joins the Idrijca River as its last right tributary. It has the pluvio-nival regime and belongs to the Adriatic Sea Basin.

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Giant Interactive Group, one of China's most successful online game companies. In October, licensed flagship game ZT Online to Astrum Nival of Russia. Founded the company in 2005. Took it public in the United States in November 2007.

There are a few permanent settlements above 4,000 meters. There is virtually no plant cultivation although medicinal herbs are gathered. Sheep, goats, yaks and hybrids are pastured in warmer months. Above 5,000 meters the climate becomes Nival and there is no human habitation or even seasonal use.

Egypt Kids is an educational video game, released in 2001 for Windows-based PCs. It was developed by EMG and published by Cryo Interactive under the Cryo Kids brand. The game was made in association with Réunion des Musées Nationaux. The Russian version was localised by Nival Interactive.

Stalingrad (also known as Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad) is a 2005 real- time tactics video game developed by Russian studio DTF Games for Microsoft Windows. The game is built-up upon Nival Interactive's Enigma Engine that was used in the Blitzkrieg game and is a fully stand-alone product.

Many of the species here are endemic, with adaptations to the cold and fluctuating temperatures. Typical plants here include giant groundsels (senecios) and giant lobelias. The region where the glaciers have recently retreated from is nival zone. It is the area that plants have not yet been able to colonise.

The Silent Storm engine is a turn-based tactics game engine developed by Nival Interactive for their video game Silent Storm. The engine was reused for Silent Storm: Sentinels, Night Watch, Hammer & Sickle and Day Watch. A modified version of this engine was used for Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Hammer & Sickle () is a tactical role-playing game for the PC, co-developed by the Russia-based companies Novik&Co; and Nival Interactive and published by CDV in 2005. The game is set in the same universe (and runs on the same game engine) as Silent Storm, an earlier product by the same company.

Nival is a synonym for snowy. A serac is a group or column of ice intersecting crevasses on a glacier. Firn is a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is at an intermediate stage between snow and glacial ice.

NIVAL was established in 1997 by Edward Murphy, a librarian at the National College of Art and Design for thirty-five years. The library's aim is to document all aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish art and design.Romano, Donna. "Edward Murphy, 1948–2014", An Leabharlann, (Dublin), October 2014, Vol 23: Issue 2, pp.

It has the pluvio-nival regime and belongs to the Adriatic Sea Basin. The river basin has an area of . The major tributaries are the Belca, Zala, Cerknica, and Bača from the right and the Nikomlja, Kanošica, and Trebušica from the left. One of the right tributaries is also the Jezernica River, which originates from the Wild Lake ().

May 2008 – Nival Online started open beta testing for the localized Russian versions of the Korean fantasy online game "Granado Espada: Scions of Fate" and "Perfect World" developed by Beijing Perfect World. IT Territory launched its new online game "Heroes: Resurrection" in June 2008. That month Ukrainian company DJ Games joined in Astrum Online. In August 2008 Nikita.

In spring 2010 Astrum Nival created negative publicity worldwide when it abruptly ceased access to "Perfect World" (MMORPG it franchises from a Chinese online game company) for players from North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. It motivated the decision by supposedly frequent hack attacks from the mentioned regions. However, the game remains open to players from Europe.

Two films based on the novel, 2004's Night Watch and the 2006 follow-up Day Watch, have been produced. (The Day Watch film is based on the second and the third part of the novel, not the follow-up novel Day Watch.) In 2005, Nival Interactive released the video game Night Watch, based on both the novel and film adaptation.

One of them, Valerio, pretends to be a merchant of engravings of famous paintings, including Titian's Venus and Adonis.Frederick A. de Armas, “De Tiziano a Rafael: pinturas y libros en La viuda valenciana de Lope de Vega,” Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, edited by Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival, Alejandro Alonso. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. Vol.

The premiere edition was held in 1967. The Department of Education permitted all Irish schools to take the time to visit the show, this innovative policy was continued through all of the Rosc exhibitions. In 2017 the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with NIVAL, held a survey exhibition, titled Rosc 50, that presented numerous archival materials recounting the history and significance of Rosc.

Rage of Mages is a PC game that combines role-playing and real-time strategy. Produced by Nival Interactive it was first released in Russia under the name of Allods: The Seal of Mystery (Аллоды. Печать тайны). The game was published in April 1998 in the EU by Buka Entertainment and on October 13, 1998 in the US. It was re-released in 2016 on GOG.com.

The Natisone (; ; ) is a river in Slovenia and Italy. It flows for some time as a border river between Slovenia and Italy, continues in Slovenia and then crosses the border and continues in Eastern Friuli, in northeastern Italy. It is the main tributary of the Torre and a sub-affluent of the Isonzo. It has the pluvio-nival regime and belongs to the Adriatic Sea Basin.

Alpine plants occur in a tundra: a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees. Alpine tundra occurs in mountains worldwide. It transitions to subalpine forests below the tree line; stunted forests occurring at the forest-tundra ecotone are known as Krummholz. With increasing elevation it ends at the snow line where snow and ice persist through summer, also known as the Nival Zone.

Mount Kenya has several altitudinal ecological zones, between the savanna surrounding the mountain to the nival zone by the glaciers. Each zone has a dominant species of vegetation. Many of the species found higher up the mountain are endemic, either to Mount Kenya or East Africa. There are also differences within the zones, depending on the side of the mountain and aspect of the slope.

Faust first launched in October 1999, on four CD-ROMs. In Sweden, it was distributed by IQ Media, with actors such as Reine Brynolfsson and Pernilla August in its voice cast. Nival handled the Russian version, brought to shelves in April 2000, while the Czech edition was released in early 2001 by Bohemia Interactive. The latter was significantly delayed by difficulties with dubbing and translation.

It is predominantly fed by melting snow (nival regime). It freezes between November and early January, and it stays under the ice until March to mid April. The average discharge of the Uday at 39 km from the mouth is . The towns of Pryluky and Pyriatyn lie on the Uday, as well as the urban-type settlements of Dihtiari, Varva, Ladan, and the selo of Pisky-Udais'ki.

Day Watch () is a tactical role-playing game developed by Russian developer Nival Interactive, and based on the Russian novel and the film of the same name. It features a group of Light Others trying to combat the schemes of Day Watch. It is a sequel of the Night Watch game released in Russia in 2007. The game is powered by the Silent Storm engine.

Night Watch () is a tactical role-playing game developed by Russian developer Nival Interactive, and based on the Russian novel and the film of the same name. It features a group of Light Others trying to combat the schemes of Day Watch. The game was released in Russia in 2005 and the United States by CDV on June 29, 2006. A sequel, Day Watch, was released in 2007.

The hydrographic network contains a large drainage basin, namely the Oued-Soummam basin. The town of El kseur is supplied with water by the dam of Tichy-haf located in the locality of Bouhamza. The dam is fed by the rain and melt water of the Djurdjura's nival coat. It has a storage capacity of 150 million m3 and supplies the wilaya of Béjaïa with 20,000 m3 / day.

Therefore, the major source of water in the alpine and nival zones is the nightly frost. This plays a very important role in feeding the glaciers, however there is yet no accurate way to measure the contribution this makes. Lower down, in the dry season, dew every morning has a similar role, and it is estimated that the majority of the small streams are fed in this way.

The upper montane forest is dominated by Podocarpus trees. Above this is the timberline forest, characterized by Hagenia (rosewood). Directly above the treeline are heathland (on the wetter aspect) and subalpine chaparral (on the drier aspects). Higher up the mountain the vegetation becomes more specially adapted to the cold in the Afro-alpine zone, and the largely unvegetated area that has until recently been glaciated is known as the nival zone.

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukrainian airspace amidst the War in Donbass. In 2016 in response to this Cyber Anakin who was a teen back then started hacking, targeting Russian websites and databases including the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, news site and email provider km.ru and gaming company Nival Networks. The information gained during the breaches included dates of birth, encrypted passwords, and geographic locations.

One adaptation is known as the giant rosette, which is exhibited by giant senecio, giant lobelia and giant thistle (Carduus), which use bud leaves to protect their buds from freezing. Giant rosette senecios form single-aged stands that drive community structure over decades. Many plant species in the Afro-alpine zone of Mount Kenya are giant versions of lowland (or temperate) relatives. However, nearer the nival zone the plants decrease in size again.

The black-eyed gecko has since been found in the mountains of Nelson and in the Lewis Pass area, living on alpine bluffs and rocky outcrops between . It is able to survive in the sub-nival zone, where vegetation is patchy and snow-covered in winter. It is possible that this species is not especially adapted to an alpine habit; rocks and bluffs may be its last retreat from the rats and mice common at lower altitudes.

From the Latin word Alpinus, from Alpes ‘Alps’.(New Oxford American Dictionary) Globally, alpine vegetation is defined zone of vegetation between the altitudinal limit for tree growth and the nival zone.(Crowden 2005) In areas where mountains can be considered typically alpine, the vegetation zones are often divided into distinct altitudinal bands. The alpine band usually consists of low growing herbaceous species given the cessation of most woody vegetation at the upper limit of the subalpine band.

The Talgar mountains are peculiar of vertical zonality, that specified a wide variety of landscapes. The high- mountainous nival glacial band occupies altitudes of 3000 m and more above sea level and is characterized by sharp tops and steep stony declines. It is the place of formation of glaciers whose tongues penetrate into spur valleys of the head rivers. The basic type of vegetation is alpine meadows, rich in edelweisses, alpine poppies, daisies and original high-mountain sedge bogs.

Eresma river then runs northwest, passing near Hontanares, Los Huertos, Bernardos, Navas de Oro, Coca and Villeguillo. It enters the province of Valladolid through Olmedo, Pedrajas, Alcazarén and Hornillos. Later it flows from the right into the Adaja in Matapozuelos. Eresma river has pluvio-nival regime, which means that it has a period of high water flow in autumn and winter season in proportion to precipitation and short, violent water flow in the spring when the snow melts.

Silent Storm (Russian: Операция Silent Storm) is a tactical role-playing game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Nival Interactive and published by JoWood in 2003 and Encore Software in 2004. The game is set in a fictionalized World War II Europe with science fiction elements. An advanced game engine, the Silent Storm engine, was developed for the game and reused in several later titles. Silent Storm was followed by the expansion Silent Storm: Sentinels in 2004.

Etherlords () is a series of fantasy turn-based strategy and card-dueling video games for the PC, by Russian developer Nival Interactive. The first game was published November 12, 2001 by Ravensburger Interactive Media under their mature game label Fishtank Interactive. Prior to worldwide release it was released in Russia (November 9, 2001) as Demiurges (). It was followed two years later by a sequel, Etherlords II, which was published in Europe by DreamCatcher Interactive and in North America by Strategy First.

Astrum Online was founded in December 2007. Joint forces of the companies let to launch several major gaming projects in Russia and abroad and to support dynamic domestic growth of existing titles in 2008. In the early spring of 2008 two companies of the holding – Nival Online and IT Territory – brought into life localized Russian versions of the MMORPG "Tales of Pirates" and online MMO game "Love City" accordingly. The second one is an online social game with some role-playing elements, top-notch graphics and animation.

Zagatala State Reserve was established in an area of 252 km2 of Zagatala and Balakan districts in the central part of southern slopes of the Caucasus; in Azerbaijan. The territory of the reserve has been altered for several times and gradually reached 238 km2. The reserve aims to protect Sub-Alpine plants of southern slopes of the Major Caucasus and the natural complexes of Alpine and nival zones. The reserve is famous for such ancient plants as rhododendron, cherry-laurel, blackberry, maple, fern, etc.

Blitzkrieg 3 () is an online massively multiplayer online real-time strategy computer game, based on the events of World War II, a sequel to Blitzkrieg 2 and is the third and latest title in the Blitzkrieg series. Nival published the first trailer for the game on YouTube on August 13, 2013 featuring live action footage mixed with concept artwork and actual in-game footage and renders. Company's CEO Sergey Orlovskiy told in an interview, that game will be released at the third part of 2015. On November 25, 2014, Blitzkriegs pre- order campaign was launched.

Astrum Online Entertainment is a Russian holding company which operates in the online entertainment market of Eastern Europe. Founded in the beginning of December 2007, it incorporated four companies, which specialize in development, publishing and operating online games: Nival Online, IT Territory, Time Zero, and Nikita Online. In summer 2008 the fifth company, the developer of online games called "DJ Games", joined in. The move will allow the participants to formalize a united strategy in regards to their activities and also utilize their combined experience and infrastructure in order to perfect their businesses.

On the other hand, the summits of much higher peaks in the tropics are not always in the nival zone. As a result, their ascent cannot automatically be described as a high mountain tour using the Alpine definition, even if they share some of the features of Alpinism, such as requiring a certain acclimatization. Mountaineering expeditions in which elevation plays a particularly important role, especially those from about 7,000 m are no longer referred to as high mountain tours, but tend to be described by the term high altitude mountaineering.

Alpine chrysanthemum (Leucanthemopsis alpina) Alpine toadflax (Linaria alpina), Mont Blanc massif, Italy The massif contains a very rich variety of biodiversity as a result of the huge height range and different habitats found between the valleys and the highest summits. Mild temperatures occur at altitudes between , whereas arctic conditions occur from up to the highest point at . Whilst the Mont Blanc massif does not contain any species that are endemic to it, there are many rare and legally protected species found within its four major habitat zones. These are the: montane forests, sub-alpine, alpine and nival zones.

Paradise Cracked was inspired by cyberpunk works such as The Matrix, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Philip K. Dick novels; and Metalheart: Replicants Rampage is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk tactical RPG inspired by Jagged Alliance, Syndicate, and Fallout. COPS 2170: The Power of Law is set in the same "Reality 4.13" universe that first appeared in Paradise Cracked. Hammer & Sickle (2005) is a tactical RPG co-developed by Russian companies Novik & Co and Nival Interactive, and published by CDV. It is set in the Silent Storm universe and follows the events in the main series.

37—8 Much of the material, amassed over a thirty-year period, is unavailable elsewhere. The collection includes files on all leading artists and designers of the period (including contemporary artists and designers), monographs, exhibition catalogues, price lists, brochures, press releases and newspaper reviews.McAvera, Brian, "Edward Murphy", Irish Arts Review, (Dublin), Autumn, 2015, pp.106–07 Since its founding, NIVAL has received annual revenue subsidies from the Arts Council and project-development funding from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Heritage Council and the UK's Design History Society.

The city of Bayda has a mild Mediterranean climate (Csb, according to the Köppen climate classification) with an average annual precipitation of . It is famous for recurring snow falls and heavy rains, where the temperature rises in the summer time to , but in the winter snow and freezing temperatures can occur. The city is in a Mediterranean-Berber/Arab area about south of Crete, and is referred to as the City of Snow, which distinguishes it from the rest of the cities of Libya. The altitude added to the northern location sustains the nival precipitation (even if hardly accumulates), different from other near coastal areas.

There have been several spin-offs from the main series, including the long-running Heroes of Might and Magic series, Crusaders of Might and Magic, Warriors of Might and Magic, Legends of Might and Magic, Might and Magic: Heroes Kingdoms, and the fan-made Swords of Xeen. In August 2003, Ubisoft acquired the rights to the Might and Magic franchise for US$1.3 million after 3DO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ubisoft has since released multiple new projects using the Might and Magic brand, including a fifth installment of the Heroes series developed by Nival, an action-style game Dark Messiah of Might and Magic developed by Arkane Studios, a puzzle RPG Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes developed by Capybara Games, and the mobile strategy RPG titled Might & Magic: Elemental Guardians.

Navarro and Ferreira have developed a database of plant species in Bolivia and identified 39 separate vegetation zones in Bolivia within twelve general physiographic- biogeographical units of which four fall in the boundaries of Chuquisaca Department including: Cordillera Oriental Central y Meridional, Prepuna or High Interandean Valleys, Bolivian-Tucuman Formation, and Chaco. Using Navarro and Ferreira’s categories and descriptions based on vegetation zones, the geographical and ecological characteristics of the Chuquisaca Department can be described as follows. Cordillera Oriental Central y Meridional: From an altitude of 3200m in Chuquisaca to nearly 6000 meters in Potosi, this zone is characterized by the puna, altoandean, and subnival and nival ecological zones with a pluviestacional subhumid bioclimate. Prepuna or High Interandean Valleys: From 2300m to 3200m, this zone is characterized by a mesotropical dry xeric bioclimatic zone.

Monthly flows of the Aude near its outlet represented as a histogram In its upper reaches the Aude has a nivo-pluvial regime (with a maximum flow in spring linked to snowmelt). Then from CarcassonneData from the hydrological station at Carcassonne (Pont-neuf) Navigate on the page to obtain the different hydrological data, the Station Code is: Y1232010. where the average flow rate reaches , the system is almost entirely rainfed (The flow at Grau de VendresTotal Encyclopedia EnCarta 2006, article on the Aude. where it meets the Mediterranean is around .) The Aude is thus characterized in its lower course by a pluvio-nival regime of meridional type with high baseflow in summer, in August at Moussan in the lower alluvial plain not far from the river mouth, against an average of .

Heroes VI was hinted at as early as June 2009, in video developer diaries for Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes: Le Breton and fellow producer Romain de Waubert wore shirts sporting a Might and Magic: Heroes VI logo. In an interview with PlanetDS.de, the producers dropped further hints relating to the project's existence, with de Waubert stating "I'm such a fan of Might & Magic that I wear its future like a second skin, very close to my heart." According to Le Breton, Nival Interactive were considered to reprise their role as series developer, but Ubisoft could not agree on a common vision with the Heroes V team, most of whom had already been transferred to work on Allods Online; Black Hole Entertainment impressed Ubisoft as experienced, talented and passionate people, and were selected to create the sequel.

After this came Night Watch (2006) and its sequel, Day Watch (2007), also by Nival Interactive, but instead based on the Russian novels and films of the same name. All three games received mediocre-to-poor review scores despite utilizing the highly regarded Silent Storm engine. Other titles inspired by Jagged Alliance include Brigade E5: New Jagged Union (2006) and its sequel, simply titled 7.62 (2007), by Russian developer Apeiron; Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge (2007) by GFI Russia; and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action by bitComposer Games. The Brigade E5 series incorporates an innovative hybrid real-time system the company calls "Smart Pause Mode" in an attempt to heighten realism; Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge began its life as Jagged Alliance 3D before Strategy First withdrew the rights to the series name; and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action is a 3D, real- time remake of Jagged Alliance 2.

Heroes of Might and Magic V is the fifth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic fantasy turn-based strategy video game series. The game was released by Ubisoft in Europe on May 16, and then in the United States and Canada on May 24, 2006, with the publisher guiding Russian studio Nival Interactive in its development. Following the closure of The 3DO Company, Ubisoft bought the rights to the Might and Magic franchise, and used Heroes V as a means to reboot the series with a brand-new setting, called Ashan, and no continuity to previous titles. Like the other games in the series, players take control of "heroes" (leaders with magical abilities) who provide their services for a faction, recruiting an army from settlement strongholds, such as castles, out of various forces (humanoid, undead, monsters, and so forth) and then doing battle against roaming armies, enemy heroes and rival factions.

Protected areas of Nepal The protected areas of Nepal cover mainly forested land and are located at various altitudes in the Terai, in the foothills of the Himalayas and in the mountains, thus encompassing a multitude of landscapes and preserving a vast biodiversity in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms. Nepal covers in the central part of the Himalayas. Altitudes range from in the south-eastern Terai to at Sagarmatha within a short horizontal span. This extreme altitudinal gradient has resulted in 11 bio-climatic zones ranging from lower tropical below to nival above in the High Himalayas, encompassing nine terrestrial ecoregions with 36 vegetation types. Botanists recorded 1,120 species of non-flowering plants and 5,160 species of flowering plants. Nepal ranks 10th in terms of richest flowering plant diversity in Asia. Zoologists recorded 181 mammal species, 844 bird species, 100 reptile species, 43 amphibian species, 185 freshwater fish species, and 635 butterfly species. In recognition of the magnitude of biodiversity the Government of Nepal has established a network of 20 protected areas since 1973, consisting of ten national parks, three wildlife reserves, six conservation areas and one hunting reserve.Bhuju, U. R., Shakya, P. R., Basnet, T. B., Shrestha, S. (2007).