Sentence examples for central grasslands from inspiring English sources

An early version of Thomas appears in the 1992 play White Woman Street, and there's a reference in The Temporary Gentleman to "my great uncle Thomas McNulty, who was scalped by a band of Comanches in the central grasslands of Texas".

At that time they inhabited the fertile southwestern Cape region as well as its more arid hinterland to the northwest, where rainfall did not permit crop cultivation, but they may once have grazed their stock on the more luxuriant central grasslands of Southern Africa.

For the two most common ethanol feedstocks, the study found that sugarcane ethanol produced on natural cerrado lands would take about 17 years to repay its carbon debt, while corn ethanol produced on U.S. central grasslands would result in a repayment time of about 93 years.

Only around 20% of North America's central grasslands have not yet been developed or converted to cropland, and much of what remains is utilized for cattle grazing [7], [10].

The central grassland with the highest air temperature, conversely, was perceived as the most comfortable site.

The subjective perceptions were also reflected by lower neutral and preferred temperatures in the grove than those in the central grassland in the warm period.

To fill this gap and to better address the local variation of outdoor thermal comfort in different urban green spaces, both surveys and measurements were performed simultaneously at three sites, "central grassland," "pond-side garden" and "grove" in a subtropical urban local area in warm and cool periods.

The study examined six conversion scenarios: Brazilian Amazon to soybean biodiesel, Brazilian Cerrado to soybean biodiesel, Brazilian Cerrado to sugarcane ethanol, Indonesian or Malaysian lowland tropical rainforest to palm biodiesel, Indonesian or Malaysian peatland tropical rainforest to palm biodiesel, and U.S. Central grassland to corn ethanol.

The post-glacial fate of central European grasslands has stimulated palaeoecological debates for a century.

There is considerable research on the effects of soil-disturbing ecosystem engineers in semi-natural Central European grasslands in terms of plant species diversity, soil properties and soil microorganisms.

These species are typically co-occurring in many Central European grasslands.