The end of the last ice age also caused some types of vegetation to disappear entirely—as the experts were able to confirm using their new methods. Take the mammoth steppe, for example ...

Army helicopters could be used for the vegetation study but would scare away birds. portions of shrub-steppe habitat in Washington state. The Hanford Reservation is the other. "It's a bit ironic ...

Grasslands and meadow-steppe vegetation are the prototypical natural vegetation of the region, but most of the area has been converted to crop lands. RANGE: The giant Palouse earthworm inhabits the ...

The landscape, still used by semi-nomadic herder communities, also represents the most complete sequence of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia, ranging from the steppe, forest-steppe, ...

The total area covers 1,611,457 ha. The region represents the most complete sequence of altitudinal vegetation zones in central Siberia, from steppe, forest-steppe, mixed forest, subalpine vegetation ...

The greater area of Jebel Bishri which according to ACSAD covers ca. 1 million ha is generally arid and semi-arid with steppe-type vegetation lying between the 100 mm and 250 mm isohyets. It is a ...