On the lower and drier islands the vegetation before human colonization consisted of savanna or steppe vegetation, with the flattest inland portion supporting semi-desert plants.
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The top of the mesa is grassland, mostly shortgrass prairie and steppe vegetation; the slopes leading to the top are mostly forested, primarily by juniper and pinyon pine with a few ponderosa pines and quaking aspen in cooler and wetter locations.
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The presence of " Iphiclides podalirius " in the floodplain of the Morava River in the Slovak Republic have been found to be a good indicator of relatively well preserved xerothermic grassland habitats with forest-steppe vegetation, which have no cutting history.
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Although situated in one of the driest places of Turkey and surrounded mostly by steppe vegetation except for the forested areas on the southern periphery, Ankara can be considered a green city in terms of green areas per inhabitant, at per head.
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Although situated in one of the driest places of Turkey and surrounded mostly by steppe vegetation except for the forested areas on the southern periphery, Ankara can be considered a green city in terms of green areas per inhabitant, which is 72 m 2 per head.
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While a joint Mongolian and Dutch team worked out compromises with angry nomads, who for generations had been grazing their sheep on land that was suddenly set aside for the reserve, the horses adjusted to the steppe vegetation, water shortages and harsh winters, during which temperatures drop to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
