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A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland ... though mostly a transition between desert to forest. [11] Savanna covers approximately 20% of the Earth's land ...
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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 ...
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. In the south, open dwarf shrub savanna, with small trees scattered among shrubs, herbs, and grasses, is predominant. [1]
Carpentaria tropical savanna: Gibson Desert (GID) Gibson desert: Great Sandy Desert (GSD) Great Sandy-Tanami desert: Gulf Coastal (GUC) Carpentaria tropical savanna: Gulf Plains (GUP) Carpentaria tropical savanna: Great Victoria Desert (GVD) Great Victoria Desert: Hampton (HAM) Coolgardie woodlands: Indian Tropical Islands (ITI) Christmas and ...
The Sahel region (/ s ə ˈ h ɛ l /; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil) 'coast, shore'), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa. It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.
The foothills savanna is bounded on the west and south by the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, which extend along the coastal strip between the foothills and the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. At about 2000 meters elevation, the foothills savanna transitions to the Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands.
The southwest Australia savanna is at the transition between the Mediterranean climate ecoregions of Australia's southwest corner and the deserts and xeric shrublands to the north and inland. Much of the area is now converted to wheat-growing.