The vegetation is steppe, sometimes called shortgrass prairie, and semidesert. From Wordnik.com. [Temperate Steppe Division (Bailey)] Reference
Steppe, sometimes called shortgrass prairie, is a formation class of short grasses usually bunched and sparsely distributed. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains-Palouse Dry Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
When she finished, he looked away, across the shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Night World No. 2] Reference
Salt pans punctuate the expanse of shortgrass prairie and dusky gray sagebrush. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)] Reference
As its name suggests, it contains a mixture of shortgrass and tallgrass species. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
Interactions between individual plant species and soil nutrient status in shortgrass steppe. From Wordnik.com. [Species influences upon ecosystem function] Reference
The subhumid conditions foster a grassland transitional between the tall and shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
Swift foxes in New Mexico are found primarily in the shortgrass prairies of Ecoregions 25 and 26. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
As in Ecoregion 27h, the prairie type is transitional between tallgrass and shortgrass growth forms. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
The sub-humid conditions foster a transitional grassland containing tallgrass and shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
The historic grassland on the Drift Plains was a transitional mix of tallgrass and shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
Except for the presence of shrubs, the Palouse grassland resembles the Great Plains shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Palouse grasslands] Reference
The Mixed Grass prairie was recognized by Clements as a mixture of the tallgrass and shortgrass prairies. From Wordnik.com. [Northern mixed grasslands] Reference
Unlike in the more mesic grassland ecoregions, fire is thought to be detrimental to shortgrass prairie plants. From Wordnik.com. [Western short grasslands] Reference
Prairie type may be midgrass or shortgrass dependent upon soil type, moisture availability and grazing pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
Between those two extremes were the midgrasses, filling niches too cold for shortgrass or too dry for tallgrass. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Two bird species are unique to the shortgrass prairies east of the Rockies, the mountain plover and McCown's longspur. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains-Palouse Dry Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
In this region the mixed-grass prairie has a predominance of shortgrass species, e.g., little bluestem and buffalograss. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
Cover types include shortgrass prairie, some midgrass prairie, scattered juniper savanna, and juniper woodland on hills. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
This region, called mixed-grass steppe, reaches from the tallgrass prairie parkland to the shortgrass steppe at about long. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
All you North Carolinians correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a helluva lot of shortgrass prairie up that way. From Wordnik.com. [Snake Hoaxes and "Manly" Photos] Reference
Extensive farming of mostly wheat and barley occurs in parts of Ecoregion 42 and has replaced the original shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)] Reference
They are most abundant on the rolling, wide-open terrain of shortgrass or midgrass prairies, typical of many parts of Ecoregion 26. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
The Llano Estacado was once covered with shortgrass prairie, composed of buffalograss, blue and sideoats grama, and little bluestem. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
The ecological region was once grassland, a mixed or transitional prairie from the tallgrass in the east to shortgrass farther west. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
A mixed-grass prairie vegetation, rather than shortgrass prairie, dominates this northern extremity of the Western High Plains (25). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
A mosaic of spring wheat, alfalfa, and grazing land covers the shortgrass prairie where herds of bison, antelope and elk once grazed. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
The Central New Mexico Plains are slightly drier than Ecoregion 26n to the east, with more shortgrass steppe and less midgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
Bison herds, though reported for the Blackland Prairie, were far smaller than those found further west in the mixed and shortgrass prairies. From Wordnik.com. [Texas blackland prairies] Reference
The Llano Estacado was once covered with shortgrass prairie, composed of buffalograss, blue and sideoats grama, and little and silver bluestem. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
The Southern New Mexico Dissected Plains is a transitional area between the shortgrass prairies of Ecoregion 26 and the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of Ecoregion 24. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
The shortgrass prairie of grama and buffalo grasses is susceptible to overgrazing, and a broken grass cover allows the invasion of shrubs such as mesquite and lotebush. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
Moisture is a limiting factor in the rainshadow of the Rocky Mountains; as a result, drought resistant shortgrass and some mixed-grass prairie dominate the plains vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)] Reference
Two environmental gradients determine species composition in mixed and shortgrass prairies: increasing temperatures from north to south and increasing rainfall from west to east. From Wordnik.com. [Northern short grasslands] Reference
Zizyphus obtusifolia, Berberis trifoliata), forming a savanna or shrubland with a shortgrass prairie understory. From Wordnik.com. [Western short grasslands] Reference
Others are desert or shortgrass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [feminist blogs]
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