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Chadwick Arboretum is a 62 acres (25 ha) arboretum on the Agriculture campus of Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.The main arboretum collection is located just across Lane Avenue from the Schottenstein Center with its other collections nearby.
Botanist Frank White estimated that the region has 8,500 species of plants, of which 4,590, or 54%, are endemic. [3] Trees from subfamily Detarioideae of the legume family are predominant in the region's woodland plant communities, including species of Brachystegia, Julbernardia, and Isoberlinia in miombo woodlands, Baikiaea in Baikiaea woodlands, and mopane (Colophospermum mopane) in mopane ...
Shrum Mound is a Native American burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park in Columbus, Ohio. [2] The mound was created around 2,000 years ago by the Pre-Columbian Native American Adena culture. [2]
The Zambezian and mopane woodlands is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of southeastern Africa.. The ecoregion is characterized by the mopane tree (Colophospermum mopane), and extends across portions of Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, including the lower basins of the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
The drier Zambezian and mopane woodlands occupy the lowlands along the Zambezi and its major tributaries, including the Shire and Lugenda, and the lowlands of the Limpopo. To the north and northwest, the Eastern miombo woodlands transition to the Central Zambezian miombo woodlands. To the southwest, they transition to the Southern Africa bushveld.
The park also features two large sycamore trees; the trees are 23–24 feet in circumference, and reportedly 500 years old. Many other trees are of mature ages, about 150 years, including oaks, maples, hickories, and beech trees. [2] Highbanks has unique geological features, including concretions in some riverbeds, sometimes with fossils inside ...
Rainfall amount is the most important determinant of the type and distribution of ecoregions. Zambia experiences good rainfall, with extremes of 500 to 1400 mm (most areas fall into the range 700 to ) in a distinct rainy season of four to six months centred on January, when the moist Intertropical Convergence Zone is over the country.
The Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands is an ecoregion in Africa. It includes dry deciduous forest and woodland, thicket, and grassland, dominated by the tree Baikiaea plurijuga . The ecoregion has a semi-arid climate, and is a transition between more humid miombo woodlands to the north, and the drier Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands to the south.