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Overview of Temperate Grasslands

The document provides an overview of temperate grasslands, defining them as communities dominated by grasses and characterized by diverse ecosystems. It discusses their locations, climatic conditions, soil types, vegetative characteristics, and the impact of human activities such as agriculture and overgrazing. Additionally, it highlights the ecological functions of prairies and the threats they face, including erosion and species extinction.

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Overview of Temperate Grasslands

The document provides an overview of temperate grasslands, defining them as communities dominated by grasses and characterized by diverse ecosystems. It discusses their locations, climatic conditions, soil types, vegetative characteristics, and the impact of human activities such as agriculture and overgrazing. Additionally, it highlights the ecological functions of prairies and the threats they face, including erosion and species extinction.

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• Javier Andrés Lerma Salcedo

• Luis Berrio Sierra


• Jamer Medina Palencia
• Sebastián Ahumedo
TemperateGrasslands
Definition:
The prairie is defined as
a community of herbs
of low weight with
predominance of grasses.
Its relief is generally
wavy, and this
characterized by the tapestry of
short herbs, harboring
great biodiversity.

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Location of the main ones
Grasslands of the World

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THEY ARE LOCATED IN:

Grasslands of the Great Plains The pampas of The Veldt of South Africa
from North America Argentina

The steppes of Central Eurasia Surrounding the deserts in Australia


Structure: Climate of the
Grasslands
The prairies are environments
temperate, with summers that
from warm to hot, and
winters from cool to very
cold; frequently, the
temperatures are extreme in
these areas. The climate of these
find zones,
himself
frequently, among the
temperate forests and the
deserts and the precipitation
annual is intermediate to the
characteristics of these
zone1a6s
Structure: Soil of the
Prairies
The chernozems of the
prairies have horizons
superiors dark due to
to the decomposition
constant of grasses
forming a black humus.
The grassland prairies
they have highmore floors
browns, richer in
humus and of structure
limosa.
Vegetative Characteristics:

• Low coverage • Herbs lower forms


vegetational the largest bunches
part of the ground is located • They can be found
discovered. trees and thickets
• Herbs grow in scattered
spring and beginnings of • The presence of trees
summer, coinciding with is not limited only by the
heavier rains. precipitation but
• In summer the herbs also because of the type of
they enter a latent state. soil.
Plant Adaptations
The vegetation of these
ecosystems it's very
adapted to browsing, and to
fire. The grasses they are
formed by leaf buds,
called reeds, and each shoot
it has a leaf blade or leaf blade.
These reeds grow only from the base.
of short and underground stems,
and they only grow upwards
when does the blooming begin
the plant.
Diversity of the Prairies
Tempered
Grazing and browsing by
herbivores like the bison,
deer and horses, and the
relatively precipitation
low. Most of the
prairies they have been
altered
extensively and now it is the
main world regions
of cereal production
such as wheat, corn and others
grains.
Diversity of the Prairies
Tempered
The prairies of the Southern Hemisphere
that are adjacent to
tropical forests and savannas,
they can to have a greater
whatof
animal diversity those
Northern Hemisphere.
The only group of vertebrates
what is especially
characteristic of the prairies is
the one of the passerine birds
-larks and calandrias.
Function of the Prairies

• Improvers of the
soil
• Recoverers of
soils
• Protectors against
the erosion
• Hostel of fauna
wild
Human Impact

The landscapes arising from the


human influence occupy
an extension every time
mayor from the surface of
planet. Basically, the
human erosion can be
classify into two types: of
exploitation (agricultural land,
forestry, mines) and of
construction (cities, ways
of communication).
Human Impact
The overgrazing, which to
the long can transform the
meadow in the desert, and the
agricultural practices little
careful, they have had effects
disastrous in certain
regions of the world.
In grasslands with
overgrazing, the mulch himself
deteriorates and disappears, due to
to the number of sheets and
straw is very scarce.
Environmental Hazards
By not respecting the technique of
crop rotation, many
regions have been
eroded and degraded.
They currently only occupy
around 12%, since in
they have mostly been
transformed into lands of
crops have been degraded
due to overgrazing.
In the southern area, they are in danger.
of extinction the puma and the
deer and in the Northern area
the bison they live in
reservationsnatural, between
others.

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