savannah

Sadly he had been brought up far from the grassy savannas of his home world Cathar and out of reach of the galaxy's more prosperous regions.

In the forests and savannas where our species got its start, being able to reach up and pluck fruit trees was a good thing.

Two studies in the project suggest a trend toward the formation of savannas at the eastern and southern parts of the forest.

Conventional wisdom says our earliest ancestors first stood up on two legs when they moved out of the forest and into the open savannas.

Temperatures cooled and the land became dries. Savannas were forming and forests were shrinking.

Dry and moist forests, savannas and mangrove swamps are what covers the lands that are not used by the natives for living on.

This major advance allowed the human species to migrate from tropical savannas and eventually to inhabit most of the earth.

Because the changes will be rapid, natural ecosystems-wetlands, rain forests, savannas-may be unable to adapt.

This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover part of the African savannas.

The new protected areas will encompass a mosaic of savannas covering ancient sand dunes, riverside forests, and swamp forests.

The report goes on to say that "it is more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems . . . such as tropical savannas. "

African elephant lives in sub-Saharan Africa. There it inhabits savannas and forests.

Red tropical soil A type of soil formed under rainforests and in savannas in areas of alternating wet and dry seasons.

Sudan's dry savannas are a major source of the gum, whose global market is worth US$90 million.

Therefore the jungles and the savannas know of no juvenile delinquency!

typical climatic envelope of savannas.

Black mambas live in the savannas and rocky hills of southern and eastern Africa.

Soil emissions of nitrous oxide in fire-prone African savannas