Temperate Grasslands
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Temperate grasslands are located in the northern part of the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude) and in the south part of the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees south latitude). The main temperate grasslands are African grassland, South American Pampas grassland, Eurasian grassland, and North America plains.
Grass is the main vegetation. There are basically no trees or large shrubs. Seasonal drought, occasional fire, and grazing of large mammals hinders tree shrubs and tree growth. Trees such as cotton, oak, willow grow in the valley and hundreds of flowers grow in the grass. Various grasses include purple grass, blue grass, Buffalo grass and Galeta. Flowers include Aster, Shining Star, Rudbaquia, Daily, Sunflower, Clover, Psoralen, Wild Indigo.
Temperate grassland has low diversity of wildlife, but abundant in wildlife. In North America, the main grazing animals are bison and prong horn. Rodents include pocket hamsters and prairie dogs. Carnivores include wolves, coyotes, fast foxes, crickets, and crociferlets. Birds include Grouse, Prairie, Owl cat, Sparrow, Eagle and Owl
Temperate grassland is hot in summer and cold in winter. Summer temperatures may exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but winter temperatures may fall as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit. They usually have annual precipitation between 10 and 35 inches, most of them occurring in late spring and early summer. At the beginning of the growing season, snow is often stored as water. Seasonal drought and occasional fire help to maintain these grasslands
Temperate grassland soils are rich in nutrients from deep, hyperbranched grass roots growing and decaying. The rotten root holds the soil together and provides a food source for living plants. The most fertile soil in the world is the Eastern Prairie, the South American Pampa, and the Ukrainian and Russian Prairie.
Excessive grazing and agriculture of livestock are two major threats to temperate grassland. Due to the development of steel plows, most of these grasslands have been transformed into agricultural land due to fertile soil. Approximately 47% of the temperate grassland has changed into agriculture and urban development. The lack of fire and fragmentation is also a threat (eradication of past and present wildlife, including the 19th century bison slaughter and ongoing prairie dog poisoning on the North American plains).
The grassland is divided into temperate zones or tropical zones. Temperate grassland is cold in winter, hot in summer, and many fertile soils. In North America, other names of temperate grassland include grasslands and grasslands. High grasslands in the Midwestern United States are the most rainy (75 - 90 cm), the grassland with the highest grass growth, and the height is 3 meters (close to 10 feet). Historically, these are the richest of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Kansas.
Temperate grassland is characterized by grass as the main vegetation. There are no trees or big shrubs. From summer to winter, the temperature changes drastically, temperate steppe has less rain than savannah. The main symptoms are the grassland of South Africa, the Pusuta of Hungary, the Pampa of Argentina and Uruguay, the Great Plain of the former Soviet Union, and the plains and the Great Plain of Central America. Temperate grassland is hot in summer and cold in winter. Gentle rain. The annual rainfall affects the height of grassland vegetation and the wetland grass is higher. Like savanna, seasonal drought and occasional fire are important for biodiversity. However, those effects are not noticeable in temperate grasslands as they are in savanna. Temperate grassland soil is deep and dark, and the upper layer is fertile. It is rich in nutrients, and comes from deep, hyperbranched grassroots growth and collapse.
Temperate grassland, also known as grassland, is hot in summer and cold in winter. Rainfall is uncertain and droughts are common. In temperate meadows, there are usually about 10 to 30 inc