Sentence examples for mountain grassland from inspiring English sources

The base of the volcano stands on open mountain grassland, but the whole upper part of the mountain is covered with permanent snow.

In Central Asia the complex borderlands between the contiguous steppe in the north and Iran and Turan (i.e., modern Sinkiang and most of Central Asia), with their tangled mix of desert, mountain, grassland, and cultivated fields, made interpenetration between nomad populations and settled agriculturalists easy and inevitable.

We examine role of natality-related plant traits in a mountain grassland community.

To test this biological hypothesis, we conducted a field experiment simulating grazing abandonment conditions in semi-natural mountain grassland plots.

Mountain grassland ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to direct climate impacts and to indirect climate change impacts through farmers' management adaptation.

Researchers have found 89 plant species crammed into a single square meter of mountain grassland in central Argentina, including many grasses and small flowers.

There are also extensive mountain grasslands.

The Cordyceps sinensis fungus is known locally as Yartsa Gunbu or "summer grass winter worm", named after the transformation that takes place as it devours its host, the ghost moth caterpillar, from inside out during the latter's hibernation on the mountain grasslands.

High mountain grasslands offer multiple goods and services to society but are severely threatened by improper land use practices such as abandonment or rapid intensification.

This contribution looks into the role of institutions – including normative, regulative and cultural-cognitive elements – in preserving current bundles of ecosystem services provided by mountain grasslands.

In order to reduce abandonment and strengthen the common extensive agricultural practice a sustainable land use management of high mountain grasslands is needed.