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Grasslands

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Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities

Abstract

Grasslands are biological communities containing few trees and characterized by mixed herbaceous vegetation dominated by grasses. Although grassland types range from the dense bamboo of the tropics to the northern continental steppes, from dry plains to arctic grasslands, and though they occur on every continent and large island throughout the world, certain abiotic and biotic features are common to most grasslands.

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