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Grasslands of the world
Plate 6.1c
Examples of the three major grassland types , from North Dakota in the north to
New Mexico in the south – (c) Tall-grass prairie (eastern Kansas).
Figure 6.3
Transect showing topographical changes across central USA .
SOURCE: Barbour, Burk and Pitts, 1987.
New Mexico). This diagram shows short-grass vegetation occupying the area
between 105° and 101°W, the mixed prairie to 98°W and the tall-grass prairie
to 93°W. The map in Lauenroth et al. (1994) shows that the northern mixed
prairie forms a broad band in Canada, eastern Montana, the Dakotas and eastern
Wyoming (Figure 6.2). The southern mixed-grass prairie is constricted between
the tall-grass prairie to the east and the short-grass prairie to the west, and found
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