grassland

Converse of object

• graze: These small, patchy woods are often the only relief from closely grazed grasslands or moorland.
• mow: Suitable RSS options: Water margins, ponds, extensive mown grassland for birds, spring cropping, conservation headlands, arable field margins.
• inundate: There is an estimated county total of seasonally inundated grassland of 481 ha, the proportion which is grazed is unknown.
• sow: Follow the same techniques as for a seed sown wild flower grassland set out above.
• intersperse: This is a large area of mixed forest and woodlands with grasslands interspersed offering species that are quite restricted in range in Kenya.
• conserve: Management, research and guidance Management agreements to conserve calcareous grassland on SSSIs have been made between owners and occupiers and EN or CCW.

Adjective modifier

• calcareous: The cover of lowland calcareous grassland has suffered a sharp decline in extent over the last 50 years.
• unimproved: These include areas of dry neutral unimproved grassland which are relatively species rich.
• species-rich: This poses a problem where species-rich grassland, for example, is desired.
• semi-natural: These contain just under half of the semi-natural lowland grasslands in Scotland.
• lowland: In 1990 lowland acid grassland was estimated to cover a total area of 560 ha.
• upland: Carbon transfers by soil biodiversity in an upland grassland.

Modifies a noun

• sward: Now we have heather plants springing up and a diverse grassland sward.
• habitat: In other parts of its range, a few are even having to be culled to protect the grassland habitat.

Noun used with modifier

• chalk: Chalk grasslands on former arable land: a review.
• culm: Two Cornwall Wildlife Trust reserves with culm grassland habitat, heath and scrub.
• floodplain: A small area of grazed floodplain grassland with shallow ponds occurs by the River Clyde, southeast of Barons Haugh.
• limestone: The site is a steep sided disused railroad cutting consisting of limestone grassland with scrub.
• savannah: Savannah grasslands - Hot, dry grassy plains that often support large numbers of grazing herd animals.
• tussock: Tall tussock grassland provides the tallest vegetation cover on the island, there being no trees or tall shrubs.