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Buffalo Gap National Grassland World map highlighting major grassland regions with three color codes: yellow for savanna, green for prairie, and orange for steppe. Savannas are shown in parts of South America, Africa, and Australia; prairies in central North America, South America, and Eurasia; and steppes across Eurasia, North America, Africa, and Australia. A legend at the top lists key examples of each grassland type by region. Grassland Brown grassland stretches toward gently rolling hills under a purple dusk sky, with the moon visible above the horizon. Big bluestem Cross-section illustration comparing sod grass and bunch grass in a grassland, showing sod grass with dense, interconnected roots and bunch grass with separate, clumped root systems. Wide view of rolling green grassland with scattered trees and distant hills in Inner Mongolia, China. Nebraska grasslands Figure 1: Principal regions where significant areas of natural grassland occur. World map displaying the distribution of seven major biomes: grassland and savanna, temperate deciduous forest, taiga (boreal forest), desert, tropical rainforest, tundra, and areas not classified. Each biome is represented by a distinct color, illustrating their global locations and extents across continents.
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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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Grassland: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

The grassland ecology of North America is discussed in Lauren Bowen, Grasslands (1985).

Jeremy M.B. Smith

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 12, 2026
Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Diversity in and Among Grasslands. Sep 22, 2026
Add new Web site: Nature Communications - Decoupling the spread of grasslands from the evolution of grazer-type herbivores in South America. Mar 21, 2026
Add new Web site: BMC Plant Biology - Grassland degradation affected vegetation carbon density but not soil carbon density. Sep 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities - Encountering grasslands: a collective approach to urban biodiversity. Jul 21, 2025
Add new Web site: PNAS - Extreme Drought Impacts Have Been Underestimated In Grasslands And Shrublands Globally. Apr 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Communications - Grassland intensification effects cascade to alter multifunctionality of wetlands within metaecosystems. Dec 09, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - Ecology and Conservation of Steppes and Semi-Natural Grasslands (PDF). Oct 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Kansas State University - Plant Ecophys Lab - Grassland Ecology. Aug 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Cell - Grassland biodiversity. Jun 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Animal Corner - Grassland Facts and Animals. Feb 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - What are grassland and pasture areas. Jan 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to the grasslands and grassland arthropods of Canada. Nov 03, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Diversity in and Among Grasslands. Jul 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Arizona State University - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Ask A Biologist - Grassland Biome. Feb 10, 2023
Noted that grasslands hold roughly one-third of all carbon stored on land. Sep 13, 2022
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Grassland Biome. May 15, 2022
Add new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - The grassland biome. May 15, 2022
Add new Web site: Kids Do Ecology - Grassland. Mar 08, 2019
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Grassland. Mar 05, 2019
Corrected display issue. Nov 21, 2018
Add new Web site: NASA Earth Observatory - Grassland. Jan 17, 2017
Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Grasslands. Jan 17, 2017
Add new Web site: New Hampshire PBS - Nature Works - Grassland. Jan 17, 2017
Add new Web site: World Wildlife Fundc Global - Grassland. Feb 24, 2014
Add new Web site: Untamed Science - Biology - Temperate Grasslands. Sep 13, 2012
Add new Web site: Defenders of Wildlife - Great Plains. Aug 20, 2012
Added image of big bluestem flower. Apr 20, 2012
Added photos of grasslands from different parts of the world. Jun 02, 2011
Added map of grassland regions of the world. Aug 26, 2010
Geologic time data updated. Sep 15, 2009
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Environment - Grassland. Apr 20, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Grassland. Jan 06, 2009
Added new Web site: MBGnet - Grassland. Sep 11, 2008
Added new Web site: University of Hertfordshire - Grasslands. Nov 23, 2007
Added new Web site: RCN Corporation - Biomes. Aug 23, 2007
Added new Web site: EnchantedLearning - Grassland Animal Printouts. May 01, 2007
Added new Web site: Blue Planet Biomes - Grasslands Biome. Jul 14, 2006
Added new Web site: Blue Planet Biomes - Grasslands Biome. Jul 14, 2006
Added new Web site: Missouri Botanical Garden - Biomes of the World. Jun 30, 2006
Added new Web site: Missouri Botanical Garden - Biomes of the World. Jun 30, 2006
Article revised. Oct 25, 2002
Article revised. May 11, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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