Sentences with phrase «arid grassland»

During the last ice age (which peaked about 21,000 years ago), he suggested, most of the forest became arid grassland.

Two initially did the hard work of tracking and pursuing over the arid grassland and woodland terrain, while the other held back.

Over the past 200 years, more than half the mammal species that once graced the arid grasslands and billabongs of central Australia have disappeared, landing the region with an unwanted world record in extinctions.

In Savory's defense, much of his argument for his grazing method is specifically that it promotes retention of seasonal moisture in soils in arid grasslands.

But what if I told you most of the coal produced in America is mined from the arid grasslands of Wyoming and Montana?

As per recent study, it is the «self - organizing» behavior of the vegetation that formed these mysterious circles in the arid grasslands of Namibia in Africa.

Not exact matches

Grasslands, trees, lakes and rivers once covered North Africa's now arid, unforgiving landscape.

The teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5 -5-million-years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands and much less arid than previously thought.

Since 1982, researchers at this arid, semi-arid site have studied dramatic changes in vegetation, as perennial grasslands give way to shrubland in a process known as desertification.

From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a dynastic empire to stretch across four centuries.

We did not engage in a detailed discussion of the carbon cycle within grasslands, life - cycle analysis of various management schemes, and several other issues simply because we believe it's not necessary to address these given the large gap between the problem (elevated atmospheric CO2) and the purported solution (altered management of arid / semi-arid grasslands).

The post was in response to a specific claim made by Alan Savory and then championed in a variety of forums: that his method (however defined) applied to half of Earth's grasslands (here one must assume arid and semi-arid grasslands) could return atmospheric CO2 levels to those prior to the Industrial Era.

The global area of grasslands, which is easily double the world cropland area and which is usually too steeply sloping or too arid to plow, can contribute to the food supply only if it is used for grazing to produce meat, milk, and cheese.