Sentence examples for tall grasslands from inspiring English sources

The world's highest mountains sit in close proximity to some of the world's deepest gorges in a region that also contains the world's most northerly tropical jungles, temperate forests, tall grasslands, savannas and rich alpine meadows.

Chitwan's mosaic of marshy floodplains, tall grasslands and evergreen forests attracts some 500 animal species, including the endangered Bengal tiger, sloth bear, clouded leopard and striped hyena.

When the availability of food within patches across the different habitats was equal, oribi preferred to feed in short and tall grasslands and avoided woodlands.

Birds generally fly in a series of undulations for a maximum of 20 or 30 m (60 100 ft) In dry tall grasslands in monsoonal areas, the change in vegetation may be so great due to either fires or wet season growth that birds may be more nomadic and change territories more than other fairywrens.

In Asia the hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) is similarly endangered and occupies the dense, tall grassland (commonly referred to as elephant grass) along the southern Himalayan foothills of Nepal, Bangladesh, and India.

The major shift from woodland to grassland at ca. 7.3 Ma introduced into this area tall grassland ecosystems, including large cursorial horses and pronghorns.

The succeeding paleoclimatic sequence (7.3 7.2 Ma) includes the earliest known mollic paleosols with deep (>50 cm) calcareous nodules, interpreted as former soils of tall grassland.

Short and tall grassland bird specialists were recorded, with some species related to the non-protected areas and others to the protected areas.

In contrast to pastoralism in arid environments of the Old World's desert belt, pastoralists in the eastern Tibetan highlands created their own environment transforming forests and tall grassland into the present golf course-like pastures.

The study area comprises approximately 1/3 of this area, which includes tall grassland, dense scrub, riparian forest, secondary forest, a permanent river, seasonal streams, and other water sources.

Species of short-sward xeric grasslands tended to be associated with the past survey, whereas species of taller grasslands and xeric scrub were associated with recent survey.