Biomes are the world's major habitats. These habitats are identified by the vegetation and animals that populate them. The regional climate determines each biome's location. Grassland biomes have cold ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

As much as one-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered in wild grasses in biomes known, aptly, as grasslands. These biomes are characterized by the plants that grow there, but they also attract a ...

Everything to know about grasslands, the vulnerable habitat common on every continent but Antarctica. Arid pampas steppe glows in the sunshine of Glacier National Park in Patagonia, Argentina.

Background and aims — The grasslands of southern Africa are threatened by habitat transformation and invasive alien species. However, the resultant plant species loss per unit area cannot be ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Explore collaborative efforts to conserve the Northern Great Plains, one of the world’s last intact grasslands, home to ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 21, No. 6 (December 2010), pp. 1069-1081 (13 pages) Question: Accumulation of litter can have serious implications on the recruitment of plant species, by modifying ...