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Creosote bush scrub is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) of sparsely but evenly spaced desert plants dominated by creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and its associates. Its visual characterization is of widely spaced shrubs that are somewhat evenly distributed over flat or relatively flat desert areas that receive between 2 and ...
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity.
The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. [8] The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant ...
Blackbrush scrub occurs over a wide elevation range in the Mojave Desert. [1] It may occur as an understory in Joshua tree woodland or pinyon-juniper woodland. [1] Associates in the Mojave Desert include ephedra (Ephedra nevadensis, Ephedra viridis), hop-sage Grayia spinosa, turpentine broom (Thamnosma montana), horsebrush (Tedradymia spp.), cheesebush (Ambrosia salsola), and winter fat ...
Naturally, desert chaparral experiences less winter rainfall than cismontane chaparral. Plants in this community are characterized by small, hard (sclerophyllic) evergreen (non-deciduous) leaves. Desert chaparral grows above California's desert cactus scrub plant community and below the pinyon–juniper woodland. It is further distinguished ...
Aldabra Island xeric scrub: Seychelles: East Saharan montane xeric woodlands: Chad, Sudan: Eritrean coastal desert: Djibouti, Eritrea: Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan: Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert: Oman, United Arab Emirates: Hobyo grasslands and shrublands: Somalia: Ile Europa and ...
This plant forms vast pure stands across the desert floor and on scrubby slopes, giving the landscape a uniform dark-gray color. [3] Vegetative types in which it dominates or is a codominate are called blackbrush scrub. [3] [4]
Sahara desert (ecoregion) Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago; San Lucan xeric scrub; Sechura Desert; Snake–Columbia shrub steppe; Socotra Island xeric shrublands; Somali montane xeric woodlands; Sonoran Desert; South Iran Nubo–Sindian desert and semi-desert; South Saharan steppe and woodlands; Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna