Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a biome whose predominant vegetation consists of grasses and/or shrubs. The climate is temperate and semi-arid to semi-humid.
- temperature: warm to hot season (often with a cold to freezing season in winter)
- soil: fertile with rich nutrients and minerals
- plants: grass
- animals: large, grazing mammals; birds
Steppes are short grasslands that occur in semi-arid climates. Prairies are tall grasslands in areas of higher rainfall. Heaths and Pasture are, respectively, low shrublands and grasslands where forest growth is hindered by human activity, not climate.
Tall grasslands, including the Prairie of North America and the Humid Pampas of Argentina, have moderate rainfall and rich soils which make them ideally suited to extensive agriculture, and tall grassland ecoregions include some of the most productive grain-growing regions in the world.
[edit] Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregions
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Afrotropic Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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| Al Hajar Al Gharbi montane woodlands | Oman |
| Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands | Amsterdam Island, Saint-Paul Island |
| Tristan da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands | Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island |
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Australasia Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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| Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands | New Zealand |
| Eastern Australia mulga shrublands | Australia |
| Southeast Australia temperate savanna | Australia |
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Nearctic Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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| California Central Valley grasslands | United States |
| Canadian aspen forests and parklands | Canada, United States |
| Central and Southern mixed grasslands | United States |
| Central forest-grasslands transition | United States |
| Central tall grasslands | United States |
| Edwards Plateau savanna | United States |
| Flint Hills tall grasslands | United States |
| Montana valley and foothill grasslands | United States |
| Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands | United States |
| Northern mixed grasslands | Canada, United States |
| Northern short grasslands | Canada, United States |
| Northern tall grasslands | Canada, United States |
| Palouse grasslands | United States |
| Texas blackland prairies | United States |
| Western short grasslands | Canada, United States |
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Neotropic Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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| Argentine Espinal | Argentina |
| Argentine Monte | Argentina |
| Humid Pampas | Argentina |
| Patagonian grasslands | Argentina, Chile |
| Patagonian steppe | Argentina, Chile |
| Semi-arid Pampas | Argentina |
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Palearctic Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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| Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe | Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
| Altai steppe and semi-desert | Kazakhstan |
| Central Anatolian steppe | Turkey |
| Daurian forest steppe | China, Mongolia, Russia |
| Eastern Anatolian montane steppe | Armenia, Iran, Turkey |
| Emin Valley steppe | China, Kazakhstan |
| Faroe Islands boreal grasslands | Faroe Islands, part of Denmark |
| Gissaro-Alai open woodlands | Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
| Kazakh forest steppe | Kazakhstan, Russia |
| Kazakh steppe | Kazakhstan, Russia |
| Kazakh upland | Kazakhstan |
| Middle East steppe | Iraq, Syria |
| Mongolian-Manchurian grassland | China, Mongolia, Russia |
| Pontic steppe | Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine |
| Sayan Intermontane steppe | Russia |
| Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe | Mongolia, Russia |
| South Siberian forest steppe | Russia |
| Tian Shan foothill arid steppe | China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan |
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