Scrubland: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	scrub • shrubland • heathland

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Victoria, Australia: scrubland

Sparse tufts of yellow grass cover the dry, flat Altiplano Plateau in Bolivia, with snow-capped mountains rising in the background.

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horizontal scrub garigue matorral Fynbos Thorn forest mallee maquis sertão caatinga Forest Tundra Desert Polar ecosystem Mountain ecosystem Grassland Rangeland Urban ecosystem Wildfire soil organism Biological soil crust

Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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