There are two main kinds of grasslands: tropical and temperate. Examples of temperate grasslands include Eurasian steppes, North American prairies, and Argentine pampas. Tropical grasslands ...

Biomes are defined by their unique vegetation and animal life, and the savanna is a type of grassland biome. There are two kinds of savannas: tropical and semi-tropical savannas. Tropical savannas ...

Sorry, tropical rain forests. Grasslands have the most plant species—at least when the area studied is smaller than a few parking spaces. In a recent study ...

Savannas and grasslands have been converted at such high rates in recent decades, the researchers found, that they often exceed rates of tropical forest loss. The Brazilian Cerrado, for instance ...

Whatever you’re picturing, it probably doesn’t involve too much grass. But tropical grasslands and savannas, including Africa’s Serengeti and Brazil’s Cerrado, are also important tropical ...

C4 plants are warm-season or tropical grasses that dominate savannas ... meaning they were wooded grasslands or grasslands. Less than 1 percent of the samples reflected sites where tree cover ...

(Artist credit: Corbin Rainbolt) An international team of scientists has documented the earliest evidence for local abundance in eastern Africa of the types of grasses that now dominate grassland and ...

Researchers say that a lack of study may have led to the mislabeling of many ancient tropical grasslands as artificially cleared landscapes, making them prime targets for reforestation activities.

As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty ... a large region of intense tropical rainfall. Using computer models and other data, the ...