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paramo
A humid Arctic-alpine meadow and scrub in which mosses and lichens are common. It occurs in the Andes, situated between the tree-line and the snow-line, and deriving much moisture from cloud or mist.
serpentine barrens
Impoverished, often scrubby or heathy vegetation associated with serpentine rocks. On weathering these rocks release an excess of magnesium into the soil, and this often inhibits the development of ...
shifting cultivation
The traditional agricultural system of semi-nomadic people, in which a small area of forest is cleared by burning, cultivated for 1–5 years, and then abandoned as soil fertility and crop yields fall ...
tree veld
In S. Africa, grassland with an open or light cover of trees which gives it a parkland aspect. It is thought that in the absence of fire much, if not all, of the veld would develop into forest or ...
woodland
1 A vegetation community that includes widely spaced, mature trees. The tree crowns are typically more spreading in form than those of forest trees. Crowns do not touch and do not form a closed ...
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