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Buffalo Gap National Grassland
grassland regions: savanna, prairie, and steppe
grassland
California grassland
big bluestem
grassland vegetation profile
patchy grassland and forest landscape
Nebraska grasslands
Figure 1: Principal regions where significant areas of natural grassland occur.
terrestrial biomes of the world
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
Ecosystems
Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
Ecosystems