The landscape is desert sands with areas of wooded steppe and shrubby grassland.
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On the move or at camp on the open steppe, you never know who you are going meet.
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Lysychansk is located in the continental climate of the steppe zone of Ukraine.
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Lateritic uplands support shrub steppe in the north and mulga scrub in the south.
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Increase in subjection of the forest-steppe population, archeologically traced.
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Corsac foxes seem to only outcompete red foxes in semi-desert and steppe areas.
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The shortgrass prairie steppe is the westernmost part of the Great Plains region.
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One older herder, Baatar, has lived in the same valley on the steppe for 61 years.
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The Tarim Basin formed an island of near civilization in the center of the steppe.
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Extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
In physical geography, a steppe (Russian: u0441u0442u0435u043Fu044C, tr. step'; IPA:u00A0u00A0( listen)) is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes...
(The steppes) The Eurasian Steppe (also called The Steppe or The Steppes) is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia, stretching from Hungary to Mongolia. ...
The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (US) prairie and (African) savannah; More properly, the name given vast cold, dry grass-plains
(Steppes) A large, flat plain with a lot of grass and almost no trees.
(Steppes) predominate in Armenia. They start at altitudes of 4,300 to 4,600 feet, and in the northeast they ascend to 6,200 to 6,600 feet. In the central region they reach 6,600 to 7,200 feet and in the south are found as high as 7,900 to 8,200 feet. ...
(steppes) (n.): a dry grassy ecosystem that is generally treeless due to low levels of rainfall. This type of landscape is found in Central Europe and Asia. Back
(steppes) Treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of northern Eurasia, which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass. They are good lands for nomads and their herds. ...
The vast, semiarid, grass-covered plain in the southeastern portion of the European part of the Soviet Union. One of the five primary natural zones of the Soviet Union.