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rangelands
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Definition
- Land on which the historic climax plant community is predominantly grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, or shrubs. Includes lands revegetated naturally or artificially when routine management of that vegetation is accomplished mainly through manipulation of grazing. Rangelands include natural grasslands, savannas, shrublands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, coastal marshes, and wet meadows.
- Definition Source
- National Range and Pasture Handbook, NRCS, USDA
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/28610.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/28610
- Used For
- grassland range
- range lands
- rangeland
- shrub range
- Broader Term
- land
- Narrower Term
- open range
- Related Term
- grasslands
- grazing intensity
- grazing lands
- land use
- pastures
- ranchers
- range livestock
- range management
- rangeland degradation
- rangeland restoration
- rangeland soils
- shrublands
- steppes
- Spanish
- tierras de pasto
- Term Number
- 28610