The animal life on a grassland biome is some of the most striking and fascinating to learn about. Many of the great herds are found on the grasslands – and some very talented independent species too. Here are just some of the animals common to a grassland biome: ...
that act as grassland transformation agents were incorporated to create a threat map showing the extent and severity of land-cover transformation activities within the biome; grassland bird species richness information was then incorporated into this map to create biodiversity transformation threat map. Th...
The grassland biome of southern Africa comprises 28% of the land surface and is the second largest biome after the savanna biome (Carbutt et al., 2011). The grasslands occur mostly on the high central plateau (also known as the Highveld region), the mountainous inland areas of KwaZulu-Natal...
The spatial location of the study area, the Three-River-Source National Park and the Three-River-Source area. The map was generated using ArcGIS 10.2, https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/. Full size image Results Based on field surveys and Maxent model simulations, we estimate that the suitable ...
Table 1. Summary of studies focused on the dominant factors in determining grassland resistance to drought and/or heatwave. D, H, and DH refer to drought, heatwave, and compound dry-hot events, respectively. VPD is vapor pressure deficit, MAP represents mean annual precipitation, MAP refers to...
plant biome, soil type and topography. Consequently, the DOM in widespread grassland areas should have profound impacts on terrestrial and aquatic environments. Moreover, due to the connections between soil and drinking water sources, the DOM may be potentially associated with human activities and hea...
(the first band of the TC) and MNDWI were used to mask salinized land. Next, the LSMM algorithm was applied to the masked image, and a grading desertification map was produced from the bare sand fraction map using the decision-tree method based on the grading system (see Supplementary ...
Figure 1. Spatial distribution of alpine grasses and AGB sampling plots on the Tibetan Plateau. The base map is the Alpine Grassland Map on the Tibetan Plateau [27]. 2.2. Field Data The field survey was carried out during July to September from 2019 to 2021, which is the growing season...
Figure 1. The location of the NNRs in the IMAR with the base map of LULC types by 2001. Table 1. The foundation year and conservation type of national nature reserves in the IMAR. By 2018, the NNRs accounted for 8.55% of the total area of the IMAR, with the distribution lying...
Figure 6. Classification map computed from multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) fraction images (hard-classified to the label with a fraction value above 70%) across the vicinity of Las Pintas, San Isidro, and Vegarada mountain passes, as well as for the southern slope of the ...