Biomes are the world's major habitats. These habitats are identified by the vegetation and animals that populate them. The regional climate determines each biome's location. Grassland biomes have cold ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

As much as one-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered in wild grasses in biomes known, aptly, as grasslands. These biomes are characterized by the plants that grow there, but they also attract a ...

Everything to know about grasslands, the vulnerable habitat common on every continent but Antarctica. Arid pampas steppe glows in the sunshine of Glacier National Park in Patagonia, Argentina.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. "There are very few intact temperate grasslands in the world right now." - Jessica Alexander, Smithsonian ecologist. Grassland restoration is ...

Background and aims — The grasslands of southern Africa are threatened by habitat transformation and invasive alien species. However, the resultant plant species loss per unit area cannot be ...

Background and aims Plant traits may characterize functional ecosystem properties and help to predict community responses to environmental change. Since most traits used relate to aboveground plant ...

Human biomass utilization reduces global carbon stocks in vegetation by 50%, implying that massive emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere have occurred over the past centuries and millennia. The ...