Scrub is a wonderful, bug-rich, habitat, particularly when mixed with a patchwork of grassland and mature trees, but it takes effort to maintain, and unless periodically cut down, it evolves into high forest.
Three million years ago, Hadar was home to monkeys, giraffes, and elephants that favored a patchwork of woods and grasslands.
Together, these actors interact against a backdrop of pronounced environmental variation and the unique patchwork of trees on grassland that characterizes tropical savannas.
For example, Landsat MSS images have been used to detect rangeland changes from 1983 to 1992 in southern New Mexico, where extensive grasslands have gradually become a patchwork of shrub lands and relict grasslands (Yool et al. 1997).
Other wildlife in this rich patchwork of forest and open grassland includes marsh deer, Indian wild dogs and a huge diversity of birds.
The swift urbanization of grasslands, forests, and farms was also reflected in the maps.
But Sonoma County's population is a patchwork of Latinos and white people, many of modest means and countercultural persuasions, and though grapes dominate the area's agriculture there are also apple orchards, redwood forests, grasslands, and small farms.
We're a patchwork of small towns".
"We saw a patchwork of different decisions".
Baghdad is a patchwork of building sites.
