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Examples of savanna
savanna
Apparently the distinction in the past was between savanna and forest elephants.
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Tropical savanna climates generally do not see this level of sustained rainfall.
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Burning projects run by indigenous people are helping combat savanna wildfires.
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Savanna climates and areas with monsoon regimes have wet summers and dry winters.
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If Liz Pearson is the savanna of nervous intensity, Linda Percy is the forest.
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As its exhibits show, humankind's roots are sunk deep in the East African savanna.
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We were now seeing the fire itself, burning down the savanna in our direction.
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Our maximal urine concentration is much too low for a savanna-dwelling mammal.
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All native zones of the Earth except savanna and rain forest are featured in Tuva.
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- A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions
- A savanna, or savannah, is a grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of C4 grasses. ...
- Savanna is a city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,542 at the 2000 census. As of 2005 census estimates, the population had decreased to 3,288.
- A tropical grassland with scattered trees
- (Savannas) dry grasslands with widely spaced broadleaf, deciduous, and evergreen trees. Savannas are characterized by low rainfall or prolonged periods of drought. Herds of migratory grazing animals and fire are important in maintaining savannas.
- The savanna ecosystem has two main components: grasses and trees. It ranges from grasslands scattered with the odd tree, to woodlands with open canopy, allowing sunlight to reach the ground to support grass. ...
- A plain characterized by coarse grasses and scattered tree growth.
- Vegetation dominated by various species of grasses with scattered individual trees; with less canopy cover than a woodland (canopies do not touch).
- (1) A physiognomic type of vegetation in which tall, widely spaced plants, especially trees, are scattered individually over a landscape otherwise covered with low-growing plants, especially graminoids. ...
