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A tree savanna at Tarangire National Park in Tanzania in East Africa A grass savanna at Kruger National Park in South Africa. A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
In Suriname, savanna areas occur both in the northern lowlands and in the more hilly areas of the interior. The savannas of Suriname probably owe their origin to the savanna climate that dominated 10,000 years ago. The current ecosystem of the savanna changes through human activities such as sand excavations. [10]
Arnhem Land tropical savanna: Australia Brigalow tropical savanna: Australia Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna: Australia Carpentaria tropical savanna: Australia Einasleigh Uplands savanna: Australia Kimberley tropical savanna: Australia Mitchell grass downs: Australia Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea: Victoria ...
The Southeast Australia temperate savanna ecoregion is a large area of grassland dotted with eucalyptus trees running north–south across central New South Wales, Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Australia, the region is known as, or corresponds to, the Grey Box Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-Eastern Australia , which ...
Edwards Plateau savanna: United States: Flint Hills tall grasslands: United States: Montana valley and foothill grasslands: United States: Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands: United States: Northern mixed grasslands: Canada, United States: Northern short grasslands: Canada, United States: Northern tall grasslands: Canada, United States ...
The southern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic is an ecoregion that covers a large area of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northeastern Angola.Its rich blend of habitats provides key insights into the biogeography of central Africa with the extensive climatic variation that it has been experiencing for the last 10 million years.
Quite tall grasses can be found in North American tallgrass prairie, South American grasslands, and African savanna. Woody plants, shrubs or trees may occur on some grasslands—forming savannas, scrubby grassland or semi-wooded grassland, such as the African savannas or the Iberian deheza.
East Sudanian savanna; Sahelian Acacia savanna; Flooded grasslands and savannas. Lake Chad flooded savanna; Deserts and xeric shrublands.