Grasslands in a sentence

Dalmatian toadflax and yellow toadflax grow on the side of the road, in grasslands, and among crops.

Filmed over the course of three years and using the very latest technology, the five-part series explores and celebrates different habitats featured, including woodlands, grasslands, freshwater and marine.

Habitat specialists — particularly birds of grasslands and other open habitats, wetlands, and woodlands — are declining rapidly.

If Colorado’s oversight agency, the Energy and Carbon Management Commission, and Arapahoe County approve the proposed fracking, the operator will drill the wells at the Lowry Ranch, sprawling grasslands owned by Colorado’s State Land Board.

Imagine if we could all see our animal cousins as the miraculous eco-engineers they are (and as the individual beings they are) and safeguard their prospects and their homes, the seas, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, and forests.

Its rays fall across the grasslands that surround them and the occasional sleepy village; the sky changes color from sherbet-orange to powdery blue.

Other species were rather distinct from us: with its ape-size brain, rambled through the woody grasslands of South Africa, and the diminutive lived, breathed and died on the islands of Flores and Luzon in Indonesia and the Philippines respectively.

Sagebrush grasslands anchor ecological systems and support multi-generational family ranches intermixed with public land as well as support vital recreational economies.

South Dakota may be more known for its croplands and “oceans of grass,” as the grasslands are known, but a vital water source wends through the land as well: streams.

Summer is the best time to see the grasslands, when they are full of butterflies, bees, and other insects, busy feeding on all the flowers.

The report analyzed grasslands plow-up in North America using government data and from the past two years.

The reserve spans over 15,000 acres and totals over 50 miles of trails that wind across the park’s sand dunes, forests, and grasslands.

These are just a few reasons why Oberly believes everyone should be invested in helping return the bison to the grasslands.

To find out more about this recovery process in former agricultural sites, the researchers measured the recovery of biodiversity and species composition in 17 temperate grasslands in Minnesota (US).

And it is, as the Saugus River flows through several miles of briny grasslands and marsh before entering the ocean at Broad Sound.

A steppe is characterised by large areas of grasslands and sandy regions.

For a start, it is one of the UK’s most beautiful butterflies, as can be seen as they flutter above the grasslands of southern England in summer.

Forests, if not burned too badly, rebound better than grasslands and shrublands because some forest roots can tap into water deeper in the ground.

For example, prairie-chickens will avoid otherwise suitable grasslands at just two trees per acre and will stop breeding altogether as tree infestations continue.

From microbes in the soil to the tallest trees, from the warblers to birds of prey, from the thousands of forbs that populate the grasslands to the thousands of corals that populate the ocean, every ecosystem on the planet thrives on variety.