Tropical Savannas (alternate spelling savannah) are a grassland biome, dotted with trees, generally located at tropical latitudes. It is much drier than most tropical forest. Rainfall on tropical savanna environments is between 50 and 150 centimetres (20 to 60 inches) a year, and can be very seasonal, with the entire year's rainfall sometimes occurring within a couple of weeks. Although the term "savanna" is believed to have originally come from an Amerindian word describing "land which is without trees but with much grass either tall or short" (Oviedo y Valdes, 1535), by the late 1800s it was used to mean "land with both grass and trees". It now refers to land with grass and either scattered trees, or an open canopy of trees. Although rainfall is generally seasonal, rivers are found in many savanna regions and often cause seasonal floods. Much of the plant life on savannas is adapted to this seasonal aridity, either having long tap roots to reach water tables, or bulbs to store water. An Inner Mongolia Grassland. ... In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities well adapted to the regions physical environment. ... Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (August, 1478-1557), Spanish historian, was born at Madrid. ... Events January 18 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro April - Jacques Cartier discovers the Iroquois city of Stadacona, Canada (now Quebec) and in May, the even greater Huron city of Hochelaga (now Montreal) June 24 - The Anabaptist state of Münster (see Münster Rebellion) is conquered and disbanded. ...

Tropical savannas are widespread on the continent of Africa, and are also found in India and the northern parts of South America and Australia. Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

Native Americans created subtropical savannas by periodic burning in some areas of the US southeastern coast where fire-resistant longleaf pine was the dominant species. Most other tree species were killed, resulting in widely spaced longleaf pines with grassland between the trees. Savannah, Georgia, is named after such an area. Farther north, as in between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes of New York, such burning killed all the trees and created prairie instead. A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ... Binomial name Pinus palustris Mill. ... Nickname: Hostess City of the South Location in Georgia Founded  -Incorporated 1733   County Bryan, Chatham, and Effingham Mayor Otis S. Johnson Area  - Total  - Water 202. ... Seneca Lake is the second longest (at 38 miles (60 km) long) of western New Yorks glacial Finger Lakes and has the largest volume, estimated at 4. ... Cayuga Lake is the longest of western New Yorks glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area. ... New Yorks Finger Lakes The Finger Lakes are glacially formed lakes in upstate New York, mainly linear in shape, each lake oriented on a north-south axis. ... Prairie refers to an area of land in North America of low topographic relief that principally supports grasses and herbs, with few trees, and is generally of a mesic (moderate or temperate) climate. ...

See also: Temperate grasslands,savannas, and shrublands

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External link

• see the WWF page on Tropical Savannas

There are two places in the United States of America named Savanna:

• Savanna, Illinois .
• Savanna, Oklahoma
  • also see Savannah for cities named with the alternate spelling

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