Sentences with phrase «grassland where»

The Cerrado is an area of dry grassland where you can find many different animals.

Reaching inland into green grassland where thousand - acre cattle ranches once prevailed, hill trails offer beautiful hiking and mountain biking...

They form under grasslands where the climate has warm summers and cold winters.

Humans were responsible for burning forests and grasslands where the large mammals lived and fed.

And it's only in the extremely high - elevation grasslands where nomads drink the hard - to - produce butter tea regularly.

Downstairs, overlooking the Otway Ranges and grasslands where kangaroos come to graze at dawn and dusk.

The beach is an hour and - a-half drive from the capital Masbate City, over a well - paved 68 - km concrete road that traverses through rolling hills and grasslands where cattle roam.

Not exact matches

With regard to pollinators, which greatly benefit from a richness of flowers, the fact that flowering weeds are more diverse and more abundant in organic arable fields and in organic grassland compared to conventional fields, where only few species and numbers were found, is particularly important.

On the lee slope of Mauna Kea, where the grasslands burnished by the sun are interspersed with brush and clumps of mamani trees, public hunting grounds stretch from 6,000 feet elevation up over the volcanic rubble that caps Mauna Kea at 13,800 feet.

The Amazon basin, which consists of grasslands, evergreen forest, and deciduous forest where trees lose their leaves annually, has a wet season and a dry season.

Most wildlife research has been done in grasslands, where it's much easier to work, but «there is a vast amount of information still to be learned from rainforests,» Karesh says.

As they report in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters, since 1950 the baseline stream flow — the amount coming from groundwater, not over the surface from rainfall — has doubled in areas where the trees have replaced the formerly degraded grasslands.

This theory has been borne out extensively in the Southwest, where fires over the past two decades have shifted large sections of landscape from coniferous forest to shrub and grassland (ClimateWire, June 28, 2012).

In Wells's view, the grasslands of Central Asia, so reminiscent of the East African savannas with their abundance of big game, are where the human race fattened up after it left Africa, 50,000 or 60,000 years ago.

Lek abandonment was also more likely at sites where there were seven or fewer males and at sites located in agricultural fields instead of natural grasslands.

On landscapes with both open and closed habitat structure, they may use a combined strategy of hiding in forest cover to lower predator encounter rates and seeking open terrain, such as grasslands, where predation risk may be reduced.

Researchers measured the rate at which soil absorbed water on grasslands with active pika colonies and in places where pikas had been exterminated for more than 2 years.

It seems that these locusts are well adapted to degraded grasslands, where sheep have eaten most of the high - quality plants.

The highest correlations between the net land carbon flux and continental biome mean fire weather season metrics were observed in the tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas and xeric shrublands of South America where regional fire weather season length metrics accounted for between 15.7 and 29.7 % of the variations in global net land carbon flux (Table 5).

Taken together, these changes are creating more days where forests and grasslands are dried out and ready to burn.

They naturally live in grasslands, not feed lots where they are fed antibiotics and can not move normally.

There is a wide patch of grassland near where we stay and we thought it will be a good experience to have a picnic there.

Last week we officially opened up our la addition to the Mario Party Legacy Network, Generic Grasslands, a site where opinion and creativity is shown in the features posted daily.

I began my educational odyssey in the tumbleweed grasslands of western Kansas, but have taught middle through high school science in rural and urban schools from the US territory of Guam (where America's day begins) to the Hawaiian islands of Molokai and Maui; from Navaho high desert country of Arizona to the Yupik wet tundra of Alaska.

Kentucky is home to lush grasslands, where farms and ranches benefit from long summers and fertile soils.

They have been popular for centuries and are a native of Australia where they live in the dry grasslands and are extremely tough little birds.

However, it prefers dry grassland and forest mosaics which are bounded by agricultural land, particularly where pasture grubs are common (Jones et al. 2013, DPIPWE 2012).

European dogs weren't cut out for the special challenges of life on the grasslands, or veld, the Afrikaans word for «field,» where the Europeans established their farms and plantations.

Dense wooded areas give way to open native grassland and wetland areas where it's not uncommon to spot wildlife during your round.

The tour continues south along the peninsula to the lagoon of Boca Paila where we turn inland and enter the narrow 11 km natural canal which traverses the expansive mangrove swamp and savanna grassland which comprise much of the center of Sian Ka'an.

Our trek continues to Yunkachinpa, where we lunch along the stream with a spectacular view of Mount Huayanay (5460 m.) In the afternoon, we head up through the cloud forest and onto the puna grasslands of Llulluchapampa (3600 m.) to camp for the night.

Leaving the village, we will continue as far as Acjanaco Pass (3,850 meters / 12,630 feet), the official entrance to Manu National Park, from where the road descends through Andean grasslands rich in birdlife, before reaching the cloud forest in the afternoon.

The last day of trekking was a gentle three hour trek through open grassland to Sembalun village, where we caught a boat to Gili Trawangan Island for some relaxation.

Rose Cottage lies on the edge of the protected Haenertsburg grasslands, where there are hiking / cycling trails, bird watching opportunities / trails, adventure sport destinations, trout and bass fishing, berry picking (in season) and many annual festivals to attend.

You will stop at Port Douglas to visit the unique Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary where 180 different animal species of the Wetlands, Rainforest and Grasslands roam freely.

The Hall overlooks grasslands, where mobs of kangaroos come to graze against the backdrop of the Otway Ranges.

165 acres of grasslands visited by kangaroos at dawn and dusk, woodlands where koalas doze and a tranquil spring where you may see Yellow Robins, King Parrots and Yellow - Bellied Gliders.

Last week we officially opened up our la addition to the Mario Party Legacy Network, Generic Grasslands, a site where opinion and creativity is shown in the features posted daily.

Being land locked in Toronto my spirit yearns for the open skies of the Canadian prairies where woodlands mingled with grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see.

If you think of the edges of a forest clearing, or the edges of grassland, it where two different systems meet and it becomes more than both.

Roy pulls viewers into a visual fantasy, where they witness her lassoing cattle, adventuring through barren grassland, and vacuuming a desert highway.

«We created GhostFood to give people a personal and sensory experience of this complex and loaded term «climate change,» by bringing to life street food in a world where ocean, rainforest, and grasslands climates have continued to shift as they have in recent years.»

[Response: We suggest an emphasis on adaptation over mitigation for grasslands in particular, especially where precipitation is relatively low, because they fluctuate annually between weak sources and sinks and the extensive management strategies applied have minimal effects on carbon balance.

In both cases the calving sites where some meters higher and covered either by mainly steppe vegetation (2010, Stipa - Festuca Steppe) or Leymus ramosus grassland on fallow fields.

All of this is reason for everyone and his brother, aunt and sister to greatly reduce their own GHG emissions, and to scream bloody murder till every corporation, institution and governmental body they have any influence over to immediately institute policies to rapidly bring down GHG emissions and look at reliable ways of drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels directly (especially replanting grasslands in the north, tree planting toward the equator where albedo change is not an issue).

Jim Laurie has been studying Holistic Management and visiting with practitioners for over 20 years, and in 2011, Seth Itzkan spent six weeks at the Africa Center of Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, where he saw first hand the use of this practice toward the restoration of grasslands and the return of surface water in rural Africa.

Scientists are studying how the warming climate is effecting the vegetation on Greenland's tundra, where woody shrubs are replacing grasslands, which could change how much carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere.

The solution was relegated to degraded grasslands, where it was the sixth (and lowest) priority, as Drawdown rates food production and ecological restoration as higher priorities than energy.

«All these ecosystem services add up to societal relevance in the region, where around half a million farmers rely on these grasslands for their main activity: cattle and sheep production.»

The tailings ponds where the cleaned sand is returned look ugly for a few years but are eventually reclaimed into grasslands.