Grasslands encompass the savannas of Africa, the grasslands of Australia ... when land is severely degraded in arid, semiarid, and dry sub-humid areas. It's caused by factors that include both ...

South Africa’s Drakensberg grasslands are one of five subtropical grassland ecoregions in the country. The rolling hills and mountains of the Drakensberg are an important water catchment area and the ...

Different parts of the world refer to their grasslands by different names – for instance ‘savannah’ in Africa, ‘cerrado’ in South America ... They often burn to the ground in the dry season, then ...

The biome concept organizes large-scale ... relative abundance of trees and grass. Repetitive dry season fires have occurred in the African savanna over the last 50,000 years.

Ferne Corrigan looks in-depth at the climate of the African savanna grasslands, describing the rainfall distribution and the benefits of fires in the dry season. The adaptations made by the baobab ...

Once the forest homes of our tree-climbing Australopithicene ancestors transformed into grasslands ... of our East African homelands has cycled violently through periods of dry and wet, punctuated ...