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Encyclopedia > Flooded grasslands and savannas

Flooded grasslands and savannas are a biome, generally located at subtropical and tropical latitudes, where flooding is very frequent.


It is characterized by

  • water : very wet
  • temperature : warm
  • soils : nutrient rich soil

Flooded grasslands and savannas ecoregions

Afrotropic ecozone

East African halophytics (Kenya, Tanzania)
Etosha Pan halophytics (Namibia)
Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna (Mali)
Lake Chad flooded savanna (Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria)
Saharan flooded grasslands (Sudan)
Zambezian coastal flooded savanna (Mozambique)
Zambezian flooded grasslands (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia)
Zambezian halophytics (Botswana)

Indomalaya ecozone

Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh (India, Pakistan)

Neotropic ecozone

Central Mexican wetlands (Mexico)
Cuban wetlands (Cuba)
Enriquillo wetlands (Dominican Republic, Haiti)
Everglades (United States)
Guayaquil flooded grasslands (Ecuador)
Orinoco wetlands (Venezuela)
Pantanal (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay)
Paraná flooded savanna (Argentina)
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna (Argentina)

Palearctic ecozone

Amur meadow steppe (China, Russia)
Bohai Sea saline meadow (China)
Nenjiang River grassland (China)
Nile Delta flooded savanna (Egypt)
Saharan halophytics (Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Tunisia, Western Sahara)
Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh (Iraq, Iran)
Ussuri-Wusuli meadow and forest meadow (China, Russia)
Yellow Sea saline meadow (China)

Terrestrial biomes
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests | Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests | Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests | Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests | Temperate coniferous forests | Boreal forests/taiga | Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Flooded grasslands and savannas | Montane grasslands and shrublands | Tundra | Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub | Deserts and xeric shrublands | Mangrove
Ecozones
Afrotropic | Antarctic | Australasia | Indomalaya | Nearctic | Neotropic | Oceania | Palearctic

External link

more on this biome (http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages/habitat/habitat09.htm)


  Results from FactBites:
 
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (262 words)
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a group of biomes in which the climate is temperate to semi-arid.
Steppes are short grasslands that occur in semi-arid climates.
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
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