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Regions with sparse vegetation and a low vegetation index are shown in tan. Based on measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. Areas where there is no data are gray. [1] Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. [2]
Indigenous people have manipulated vegetation on a large-scale with fire management to favor tanoak acorn production. Frequent low-intensity burns set after the initial acorn drop killed the larvae inside as well as any already in leaf litter, which reduced the insect populations.
Tugai vegetation along the Syr-Darya in Kazakhstan, Central Asia. Tugay [ a ] [ b ] is a form of riparian forest or woodland associated with fluvial and floodplain areas in arid climates. These wetlands are subject to periodic inundation, and largely dependent on floods and groundwater rather than directly from rainfall.
A heath (/ ˈ h iː θ /) is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths [1] with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate.
Most plants are confined to the numerous cracks in the limestone. An alvar is a biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil and, as a result, sparse grassland vegetation. Often flooded in the spring, and affected by drought in midsummer, alvars support a distinctive group of prairie-like plants. [1]
African savannas occur between forest or woodland regions and grassland regions. Flora includes acacia and baobab trees, grass, and low shrubs. Acacia trees lose their leaves in the dry season to conserve moisture, while the baobab stores water in its trunk for the dry season. Many of these savannas are in Africa.
Quercus havardii (common names include shinnery oak, shin oak and Havard oak) is a deciduous, low-growing, thicket-forming shrub that occupies some two million to three million hectares (7,700 to 11,600 square miles) in the southern Great Plains of North America. [2]
It can be found in low level vegetation up to a height of 20m. [2] Like many other arboreal snakes, this species has a disrupted green color to allow it excellent camouflage in the trees, hiding it from predators and prey.