In Baden-Wuerttemberg, one quarter of the agricultural production value is generated on grassland [58].
"The Masai walk on grassland," Mr. Tira said.
The rightness of that picture -- a bovine grazing on grassland -- goes way back, maybe all the way to the savanna.
He added: "One of the interesting lessons from Australia was that there has been an 80% reduction in applications to build on grassland".
In the nineteenth century, it was possible to acquire land by clearing forest, planting trees on grassland, draining wetlands, irrigating dry land, mining precious minerals, and gathering stone.
While no gun was found on him, a handgun in a sock was discovered on grassland about four metres (14ft) from his body.
When farmland is abandoned, it rapidly turns to scrub, and Europe's grassland butterfly species have evolved over millennia to live on grassland, including land under old forms of cultivation that were less intensive.
But similar studies on grassland bird species have been ambiguous.
Since then, I have focused my research on grassland birds in northern Tibet.
The establishment of SRC on grassland into SRC plantations is also generally excluded by law [50].
Remotely sensed vegetation indices are able to provide valuable information on grassland properties.
