Extensive grasslands, good pasturage and a tradition of professional herdsmen helped the process of evolution of many distinct breeds of cattle. |
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The previous morning while we drove through a dust-ridden wallow, we had approached a Maasai Warrior walking barefoot through the grasslands. |
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Ranchers graze cattle and water buffalo on floodplain grasslands to produce meat and secondarily dairy products. |
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The Chichghat valley is a dense natural forest with ponds and waterholes, grasslands and meadows. |
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It was then tested and found to apply in other habitat types such as wetlands and Mediterranean grasslands. |
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As they follow the coast, kestrels often hover above marshes and grasslands, waiting to pounce on rodents, small birds, and insects. |
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Witch grass is an annual grass native to North America that infests field crops, small grains, grasslands, and a variety of other habitats. |
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On a wide coastal plain, a broad river with sparsely treed grasslands on either side meandered towards the foothills. |
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The result will be about 10 acres of open water throughout the year while reed beds and wet grasslands will be planted to attract wildfowl. |
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The native prairie grasslands and alfalfa provide food and shelter for these birds. |
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Rich argues that Western grasslands need the presence of large ungulates, like the bison that once roamed the plains. |
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The biotic diversity of the grasslands has historically supported a diverse assemblage of species. |
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Wildlife species that rely on native grasslands and sagebrush habitat have experienced considerable change. |
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Within an hour, the mountains, grasslands, kiwis, takahes, and other wonders I want so much to see were hundreds of miles behind us. |
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The maned wolf, a solitary denizen of South America's savannah grasslands, is the continent's largest wild canid, by far. |
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Open grasslands and open halophyte grasslands predominate in both study areas, interspersed with Chihuahuan desert scrublands. |
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It has an incredible biodiversity including savannah, grasslands, thornveld and tall acacia trees. |
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First, most midwestern mine grasslands exceed the apparent size thresholds for even the most area-sensitive grassland species. |
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Black medick is abundant on roadsides, dry grasslands and sand-dunes, though rare in the north-west. |
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Other player's meeples can't be placed in grassland connected to your farmer's, but their meeple's grasslands can be connected with yours. |
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Mongolia's vast grasslands have long attracted adventure travelers, especially those who prefer to travel on horseback. |
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The habitat of the coachwhip includes deserts, grasslands, prairies, woodlands, and open areas. |
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It, too, was separated from the rest of the land, but only by easily traversable grasslands and hills. |
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Additionally, 4 acres degraded by an invasive stand of black locust were restored to native grasslands. |
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Colonists were quick to adopt the Aboriginal use of the fire-stick to manage the grasslands more effectively. |
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The Black Hills are the eastern limit of the Ponderosa pine forests and about the only place you can find pristine patches of montane grasslands. |
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It is primarily restricted to flat or sloping grasslands, often along valley bottoms or areas adjacent to vernal pools. |
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The graphics are a little bland, the landscapes being rather unvaried snow, desert, or grasslands. |
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When possible, grasslands found to be used by upland sandpipers should be managed to avoid disturbance during the nesting season. |
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Isabelli cloaks herself in verdancy, and threads the most beautiful blooms of desert, forest grasslands and jungle alike through her hair. |
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Like fire and grazing, the haying rejuvenates older grasslands by removing dead vegetation and opening up the grass canopy. |
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Chigger bites are caused by the harvest mite or red bug, which commonly is found in grasslands of the southeastern United States. |
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Additionally, grasslands began to spread, and this led to an evolutionary radiation of open habitat herbivores and carnivores. |
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Rhinanthus minor is a facultative hemiparasite found in natural and semi-natural grasslands throughout the UK and Europe. |
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To drink strong liquor is also useful since nights get rather cold on the grasslands. |
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Early spring emergence and rapid growth, high palatability and herbage production make the grasslands ideal for grazing and forage production. |
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American Golden-Plovers nest primarily on arctic and subarctic tundra of North America, and winter on South American grasslands. |
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These species occur mainly in montane forests and grasslands in the south-eastern highlands of the country. |
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The grasslands frequently suffer from overgrazing, a problem affecting not only cattle, but also the productivity of local fisheries. |
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Ecologically, they range from forest dwellers, such as wild pigs and chevrotains, to dominant large herbivores on grasslands. |
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With their teeth, hooves, horns and dung, wildebeest have literally cultivated the grasslands. |
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Higher up, grasslands are home to burrowing owls, chukars, and peregrine and prairie falcons. |
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Rhino species grazed temperate grasslands and tundra, and many were covered with a thick coat of hair. |
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Then, from his tower, Thom looked straight across the fens and grasslands, and his gaze landed on the mountain. |
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As England's open grasslands began to be cultivated and enclosed by farmers, even birds which escaped the hunters gradually died away. |
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As the pace of the storm increased the wind picked up, driving down out of the hills and across the high grasslands. |
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Plant and animal competition is most marked on fertile soils of eutrophic forests and grasslands. |
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There are no inns or hotels in the boundless grasslands, but one can always count on the Mongols for help. |
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Another surprise was the apparent association of Planigale populations with tall grasslands on the Tweed Coast. |
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The secretive corncrake prefers to nest in hay meadows and other grasslands, especially those with dense vegetation. |
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I have risked life and limb sauntering through snake-infested grasslands hoping to flush a quail. |
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Have they vanished along with footpaths, with grasslands and clearings, with nature? |
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Tourists also damage the fragile ecosystem by dumping plastic waste and driving over the grasslands. |
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As much or more management is required for grasslands than for cropland, he said. |
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Permanent cultivation forces shifting cultivators to move to more marginal areas and the grasslands. |
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The dry, open grasslands of the savanna make cereal farming and herding a way of life for the Hausa and the Fulani. |
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Sage grouse depend on healthy sage grasslands, especially dense stands of brush, for shelter and protection. |
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Whereas the striped mouse is solitary in grasslands, it forms social groups in desert habitats. |
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The empty expanses of the puna, as the grasslands are called in the Andes, correspond to the silence in which we walked. |
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This small granivorous parrot is native to grasslands and forest edges of northern South America. |
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Within the past decade, two bush crickets, relatives of grasshoppers, have arrived on local grasslands. |
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Optimal habitat consists of open medium to tall grasslands fringed with an ecotone of woody vegetation. |
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Denser, shrubby ecosystems are also encroaching on grasslands in many areas. |
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This is an area of open grasslands grazed year round by large concentrations of several ungulate species. |
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Many of the remaining grasslands are located in areas with high natural amenities. |
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They might move from a summer grassland to an area of streams and lakes when the grasslands get too dry. |
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However, the plains zebras are the most common and live on the open grasslands and along the edges of deserts in Africa. |
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Agricultural lands, rainforests and other wooded areas, grasslands, and sources of fresh water are all at risk. |
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Nearby grasslands provide an open area where the young can forage for insects. |
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In early spring, the grasslands are often covered with the shiny yellow heads of goldfields. |
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In your proposal you talk about cheetahs hunting pronghorn and elephants grazing Great Plains grasslands. |
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Grazing animals spread into the great grasslands of North America, Africa, and Asia. |
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He must have seen them, since their clothes didn't match the green of the grasslands. |
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In the Western Ghats, at an altitude of about 1,600 metres, in the region of sholas and grasslands, the kurinji flourishes as a gregarious shrub. |
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These hardy perennials, commonly known as Sea Holly or Eryngo, are natives of the damp grasslands of South America. |
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The grasslands in the park consist of chinkara, nilgai, chausingha and wild boar. |
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Farther north, the Araucanians roamed the grasslands in bands of one to two hundred families, living off the wild animals that abounded in the area. |
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In Eurasia and North America, the spread of grasslands forced an evolutionary change in herbivorous mammals, with the forest browsers giving way to the prairie grazers. |
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Etosha's grasslands are home to doublebanded plovers and black korhaans. |
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Though primarily found in rainforests, some guineafowl live in open-country habitats other than the desert, such as grasslands and plains with thickets and brush. |
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Forests, croplands, and grasslands around the world are thought to be valuable for offsetting carbon dioxide emissions from industry and vehicles. |
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Similarly, prairie chicken, sage grouse, and prairie elk will gain critical habitat when we establish bison and prairie dog reserves in the national grasslands. |
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They prefer grasslands, chaparral, and scrub oak areas to forage for food. |
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Caracals, also commonly called African lynx, weigh at adulthood from 25 to 45 pounds and are native to the grasslands of Africa and parts of Asia. |
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This is the view presented by the enormous Inner Mongolian grasslands, dotted with white tents, called yurts, where tourists and some Mongolians still live. |
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It is also hoped that the wet grasslands and shallow riverside verges will benefit water voles, dragon and damselflies, frogs and toads and different types of newts. |
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These are classed as areas of county importance for their wildlife, which include ancient woodlands, species-rich grasslands and meadows, wetlands and mires. |
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Some local governments are requiring stall-feeding of livestock with forage gathered by hand, hoping that this confinement measure will permit grasslands to recover. |
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The trip will include a visit to the famous dry grasslands of Kielheim, excellent for spotting butterflies such as Camberwell beauties, field crickets, and green lizards. |
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The main reasons for its decline are the clearance of heaths, drainage of winter-wet grasslands, loss of pastures to arable fields, and decline of grazing on commons. |
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They were taken around different micro watershed areas, sholas and grasslands and shown the steps being taken by the Forest Department to conserve water resources. |
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The main vegetation here comprises large tracts of tropical rain forests, semi-evergreen as well as moist deciduous forests, plantations and grasslands. |
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They live in grasslands, deserts, desert scrublands, wetland and woodland edges, shrubby habitat, arctic and alpine tundra, agricultural fields, urban and suburban areas. |
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Mandela was born among the rolling grasslands and rocky ravines of the Transkei region, where whites were seldom seen. |
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Thus, we start in the polar ice and tundra, move on to grasslands, thence to rain forests and marshes, then uplands, seaboards and maritime civilisations. |
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Butterflies, such as the Marsh fritillary and Chalkhill blue, and wildflowers, such as Deptford pink and Meadow clary, depend on these grasslands and are also in decline. |
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In lower latitudes, mastodons and elephants, giant deer and ox, beavers, dogs and cats, and other familiar species existed in the forests and grasslands. |
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American Kestrels are found in a wide variety of open habitats, among them agricultural areas, grasslands, sagebrush, shrub-steppe, steppe, and dry forest zones. |
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The vast majority of tourists enjoyed Shenandoah National Park through the Skyline Drive, campgrounds, comfort stations, scenic vistas, and open grasslands. |
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The sky above is clear and blue, the grasslands lush and green, but there is no birdsong, no buzz of insects, no sign of anything living but the ones walking with him. |
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Caracals, also commonly called African lynx though not actually a lynx, weigh at adulthood from 25 to 45 pounds and are native to the grasslands of Africa and parts of Asia. |
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Ambitious schemes are also in the pipeline to replant some of the park's lost woodlands and also to restore large areas of grasslands, bogs and moorland. |
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This is one of today's more effective marsh and grassland camouflages, equally at home in the brush and on the open grasslands of the West. |
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Phytosociology and phytogeography of the calcareous grasslands on Devonian limestone in southwest Belgium. |
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If so, Holistic Management International COO Peter Holter says the task at hand is to find a way to produce healthy grasslands on a vast scale. |
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Survivalist and nature enthusiast Ray Mears guides the viewer past forbidding mountain ranges, harsh deserts, and wild grasslands. |
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Weeds are also very prevalent on dry upland grasslands, where such hay as is produced is necessarily thin and haulmy. |
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Typical habitat is open or semiopen grasslands, as well as sagebrush, semiarid lands, and scrublands. |
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The Appalachian Mountains divide the eastern seaboard from the Great Lakes and the grasslands of the Midwest. |
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The ethnic groups have adapted to mountains, deserts, grasslands, and forests. |
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This coastal strip is part of the Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands ecoregion. |
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Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands and other areas including the most developed urban areas, all have distinct forms of wildlife. |
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Dwarf chameleons, the chameleon of study, occupy a wide variety of habitats from forests to grasslands to shrubbery. |
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Terrestrial habitat types include forests, grasslands, wetlands and deserts. |
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Common shrews are found throughout the woodlands, grasslands, and hedgelands of Britain, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe. |
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The roe deer is primarily crepuscular, very quick and graceful, and lives in woods, although it may venture into grasslands and sparse forests. |
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They are also seen on mountains, swamps, grasslands, and even open cultivated fields. |
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The gray wolf is a habitat generalist, and can occur in deserts, grasslands, forests and arctic tundras. |
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The expansion of grasslands in North America also led to an explosive radiation among snakes. |
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Common gorse is also an invasive species in the montane grasslands of Horton Plains National Park in Sri Lanka. |
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In July, some individuals mature and migrate back towards the sea, crossing wet grasslands at night to reach rivers that lead to the sea. |
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In western North America, vernal pools tend to form in open grasslands, whereas in the east they often occur in forested landscapes. |
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The global cooling that occurred during the Pliocene may have spurred on the disappearance of forests and the spread of grasslands and savannas. |
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The remaining vegetation types consist of grasslands, the majority of which are tussock. |
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They occur in a variety of habitats, such as grasslands, savannas, woodlands, thorny scrublands, mountains, and coastal hills. |
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By 2009, over 440 elk were counted at Tomales Point's 2,600 acres of coastal scrub and grasslands. |
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Wild vegetation runs from tropical rainforest to arid grasslands with cactus, with cypress trees along rivers and other surface water. |
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Ecosystems vary depending on relief, soil and temperature, leading to a wide variety of vegetation, including forests, scrub and grasslands. |
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Parts of the west and southwest consist of large grasslands, with scattered stands of trees. |
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In this section, the regions along the river are mostly deserts and grasslands, with very few tributaries. |
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Arable fields dominate the land cover of the area and grasslands are infrequent. |
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Due to the impermeable nature of the rock, blanket bogs and mires form, and drier areas have wet and dry heaths and acid grasslands. |
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Some evidence suggests eutrophic rainwater can convert ericoid heaths with species such as Erica tetralix to grasslands. |
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Zachary Taggart, 16, of South Wales, New York, found a piglike deer, or oreodont, adapted for roaming grasslands. |
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They chose a wide variety of environments, including rainforests, tundra, grasslands, and deserts. |
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Rabbit populations seem to be greatest in ecotone habitats and less in scrublands or grasslands. |
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Plus, farmers sometimes cut down forests to plant crops, or they allow livestock to overgraze grasslands. |
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He explained that when large number of kangaroos gather, it overgrazes the grasslands until the area looks like a lawn. |
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Patterns of air temperature and accumulation of snow in subalpine heathlands and grasslands on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria. |
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Breeding biology of the Tawny-bellied Seedeater in southern Brazilian upland grasslands. |
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Glacial grasslands were dominated by megafaunal grazers, with large browsers in wooded riverine strips. |
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In grasslands, listen for the fluttery, unoiled sound of California quail, then watch for their small ritualistic motions. |
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Eutrophy occurs in many lakes in temperate grasslands, for instance. |
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The region is home to a variety of geographical features, such as glaciers, rainforests, valleys, deserts, and grasslands that are typical of much larger continents. |
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European bison tend to live in lightly wooded to fully wooded areas and areas with increased shrubs and bushes, though they can also live on grasslands and plains. |
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Though found in widely varied habitats and climates, it typically avoids extensive woodlands, grasslands, and deserts away from human development. |
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Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few refugia were surrounded by tropical grasslands. |
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Major changes during the Oligocene included a global expansion of grasslands, and a regression of tropical broad leaf forests to the equatorial belt. |
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Kublai went south over the grasslands and met up with the first column. |
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Forests are either logged or burned to make room for mining activities or for grasslands, and often the area needed for such purposes is extensive. |
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Forests replaced open woodlands and grasslands across the continent. |
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Pantanal, flooded grasslands and savannas in Mato Grosso do Sul. |
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The coastal uplands and a belt of Brigalow grasslands lie between the coast and the mountains, while inland of the dividing range are large areas of grassland. |
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Stay in luxury eco-campervan tents or camp in secluded camping spots on 200 hectares of yacca, forest, grasslands, samphire and hyper-saline lakes. |
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The climate is cooler in the savannah grasslands around the capital city, Nairobi, and especially closer to Mount Kenya, which has snow permanently on its peaks. |
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Forests dominate, interrupted in places by grasslands, scrub, and crops. |
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Subsistence farming, widely practiced from the northeastern jungles to the southwestern grasslands, consists largely of corn, bean, and tuber plots. |
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Nutritional strategies of myomorph rodents of North American grasslands. |
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The sites included alpine grasslands in China, tallgrass prairies in the United States, pasture in Switzerland, savanna in Tanzania and old fields in Germany. |
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One method was to depasture the stock in the alpine grasslands of the Snowy Mountains area, for those fortunate to hold land adjacent to this area. |
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In less elevated regions, particularly the lower lying Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands in the east of the country, the climate can be significantly hotter and drier. |
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In addition to the delta and desert areas, there are grasslands and savannas, where blue wildebeest, antelopes, and other mammals and birds are found. |
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The Lowveld of Swaziland, at around 250 metres, is less populated than other areas and presents a typical African bush country of thorn trees and grasslands. |
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As compared to the population from xerothermic grasslands, the forest plants are on average 4 cm larger, and the higher the plant, the more exposed is the sporophore. |
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The varied upland landscape offers a vital habitat for dry heath, wet heath, mire, sessile oak woodland, reed bed, river, valley mire and marsh grasslands. |
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The River Swale and its valley support a range of habitats including broadleaved, mixed and conifer woodland as well as hay meadows and grasslands. |
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Other species might use retaining ponds if small portions of wooded habitat and un-mown grasslands are set aside when future retaining ponds are built. |
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The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes. |
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Fallow deer adapted extremely well to the South African environment with access to savanna grasslands and particularly in the cooler climate ranges such as the Highveld. |
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