The phrase "a grassland" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The plains of South Dakota contain a grassland ecosystem full of wildlife."
But over the centuries it became a grassland.
The typical landscape is a grassland strewn with smaller trees.
Often, a small number of species dominates a grassland.
"It's always easier to build in a grassland, in a flat plain like this.
A grassland species cannot simply decide to become a woodland species.
At Konso, southern Ethiopia, P. boisei lived in a grassland habitat.
The result of such activity, he said, has transformed the seabed from "a forest landscape into a grassland".
Pollen grains from the coprolite showed the area was once a grassland that covered a flood plain.
Before Austrian agricultural colonization began in the 18th century, the dry Vojvodina plains were a grassland steppe.
"Normally we think of meadowlarks as a grassland bird," she said, "but these had all eaten longleaf pine seeds.
Trees hide the prison from the road; on the approach, the building crops up quickly, wide and beige, a desert palace in the middle of a grassland.
