Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Guinean forest–savanna mosaic is known for its high biological diversity. [12] It is home to a wide range of plant and animal species, including many endemic species that are found nowhere else in the world. Some iconic species found here include chimpanzees, pygmy hippos, forest elephants, and various species of primates and birds. They ...
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.
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands are terrestrial biomes defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The predominant vegetation in these biomes consists of grass and/or shrubs. The climate is temperate and ranges from semi-arid to semi-humid. The habitat type differs from tropical grasslands in the annual temperature regime and ...
Savanna; Serengeti; Serengeti volcanic grasslands; Sipaliwini Savanna; Somali Acacia–Commiphora bushlands and thickets; South Arabian fog woodlands, shrublands, and dune; Southern Acacia–Commiphora bushlands and thickets; Southern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic; Southern miombo woodlands; Sudan (region) Sudanian savanna
The principal plant communities include Lake Victoria drier peripheral semi-evergreen Guineo-Congolian rain forest, Lake Victoria transitional rain forest, moist Combretum wooded grassland, dry Combretum wooded grassland, Evergreen and semi-evergreen bushland and thicket, Edaphic wooded grassland on drainage-impeded or seasonally flooded soils, and swamp forest.
The biome is dominated by grass and/or shrubs located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes. Tropical grasslands are mainly found between 5 degrees and 20 degrees in both North and south of the Equator.
Map of oak savanna distribution in North America. Although there are pockets of oak savanna almost anywhere in North America where oaks are present, there are three major oak savanna areas: 1) California, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon in the west; 2) Southwestern United States and northern Mexico; and 3) the prairie/forest border zone of the Midwestern United States.
The varying rainfall, topography, and soils within the ecoregion supports several plant communities. In the north and east, Mopane savanna with the trees Colophospermum mopane, Sesamothamnus benguellensis, and S. guerichii, is predominant. The semi-desert and savanna transition community supports a variety of species.