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==External links== |
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*[http://www.panda.org/news_facts/education/university/habitats/index.cfm (World Wildlife Fund)] |
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Revision as of 16:08, 30 October 2008
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands are a grassland biome located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes. Grasslands are dominated by grass and other herbaceous plants. Savannas are grasslands with scattered trees. Shrublands are dominated by woody or herbaceous shrubs.
Rainfall in tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands can be highly seasonal, with the entire year's rainfall sometimes occurring within a couple of weeks. Much of the plant life on savannas is adapted to seasonal aridity. Adaptations to the dry climate include herbaceous annuals, which die in the dry season and re-grow from seed each year, and perennial plants which grow long tap roots to reach groundwater, or bulbs to store water.
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands occur on all continents but Antarctica. They are widespread on Africa, and are also found in India, the northern parts of South America and Australia, and the southern United States.
African Savannas occur between forest or woodland regions and grassland regions. The climate varies, with an average temperature of 27°C with peaks of 30°C in April and October, and between 300 and 1500 millimeters of rain per year. Flora includes:
- Acacia (Tree)
- Loses leaves in dry season to conserve moisture
- Leafy canopy in rainy season (flattened by winds)
- Baobab (Tree)
- Stores water in trunk
- Thick bark to protect it from fires in dry season
- Long Tap roots to reach underground moisture
- Few leaves to reduce water loss through transpiration
- Grass
- Grow Quickly to 3 or 4 meters in clumps
- Shoots die in dry season leaving only roots
- Low Shrubs
- Drought resistant
- Small
- Thorns not leaves
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregions
Arnhem Land tropical savanna | Australia |
Brigalow tropical savanna | Australia |
Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna | Australia |
Carpentaria tropical savanna | Australia |
Einasleigh Uplands savanna | Australia |
Kimberley tropical savanna | Australia |
Mitchell grass downs | Australia |
Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands | Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
Victoria Plains tropical savanna | Australia |
Terai–Duar savanna and grasslands | Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Western Gulf coastal grasslands | Mexico, United States |
Beni savanna | Bolivia |
Campos rupestres | Brazil |
Cerrado | Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay |
Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands | Clipperton Island is an overseas territory of France |
Córdoba montane savanna | Argentina |
Guianan savanna | Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela |
Humid Chaco | Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
Llanos | Venezuela, Colombia |
Uruguayan savanna | Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay |
Hawaiian tropical high shrublands | Hawaiʻi |
Hawaiian tropical low shrublands | Hawaiʻi |
Northwestern Hawaii scrub | Hawaiʻi, Midway Atoll |
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