Sentence examples for grasslands by from inspiring English sources

As herbivores, they also maintained grasslands by keeping certain invasive shrubs out.

In many locales, insufficient grazing has led to the invasion of grasslands by shrubs and forbs.

Encroachment of Great Plains grasslands by fire-sensitive woody plants is a large-scale, regional process that fragments grassland landscapes.

Loss of native grasslands by anthropogenic disturbances has reduced availability and connectivity of habitat for many grassland species.

This was in detriment of, primarily, wetlands by 7.5%, grasslands by 4.0%, and native forests by 2.8%.

The intra-category change of utilization intensity was assessed for grasslands by using standard yields and forage consumption estimates.

California grassland by Charles Webber © 2002 California Academy of Sciences.

Chaparral returns to its prefire density within about 10 years but may become grassland by too frequent burning.

Three thousand years before Christ, neolithic farmers felled the trees and gave us a landscape stripped to grassland by grazing sheep we take as "natural" today.

Sitting on a sun-dappled patio I was serenaded from the bordering grassland by the distinctive comb-scraping-on-matchbox call of corncrake.

Elephants, for instance, would help to preserve the grassland by eating shrubs that encroach on it a role previously filled by mastodons (pictured above).