The AHP is dominated by woodland savanna and tropical montane forests and grasslands, a complex transitional ecosystem between the Congo tropical rainforest and the Kalahari Desert.
The plateau is dominated by woodland savanna and tropical montane forests and grasslands, a complex transitional ecosystem between the Congo tropical rainforest to the north and the Kalahari Desert to the south.
They may not be enough to restore fully the living communities that once thrived in one of the world's biggest grasslands and most complex old-growth forests, biologists say.
The share of species-rich farmland was highest in upland and structurally complex grassland-dominated regions where extensive livestock production is practised; whereas landscape elements were most likely to occur within flat regions where edge density tends to be high.
Treatments were prescribed burning and livestock exclusion for both a grassland-dominated and a shrub-encroached grassland state within a complex of sandy and shallow sandy ecological sites.
The park already has an archery range, a campground, protected grasslands, a private sports complex and a community garden.
Part of the complex at Grasslands includes a unit for women who are awaiting trial, sentencing, transfer to state prison or serving sentences of a year or less.
This blends with existing habitat — everything from mature cottonwood forests to grasslands — to fashion a complex patchy mosaic that increases biological richness.
Biological proxies (pollen, spores, and charcoal), geochemical analysis through X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), and a detailed chronology based on AMS 14C dating from a western Serbian sinkhole core suggest complex woodland-grassland dynamics and strong erosional signals throughout the Little Ice Age (LIA).
The bulk of the Tropical Zone comprises mixed deciduous woodland and sclerophyllous low-tree savanna, with areas of tussock grassland, coastal mangrove complexes, and tropical rainforest containing much exotic vegetation particularly in the northeastern parts of Cape York Peninsula and in Queensland.
