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 ...