New playing fields, grassy parks, fertile allotments, inland boating centres, could all be created from the present decay and desolation.
The study area has scattered boulders and a few rock outcrops, and a range of vegetation from open grassy areas with few trees to denser woodland.
The zero-till system suited legume crops but gave lower productivity in wheat due to a build up of grassy weeds, and was not suitable for watermelon.
Air temperature and relative humidity sensors were placed in white ventilated screens at +20 and +200 cm above grassy ground.
In that transitional zone, islands of forest within a broader landscape of grassy savanna seemed a classic case of a landscape degrading under the expansion of human settlement.
The wetland itself is at places grassy meadows, reed beds and open water regions with submerged plants, and at other places, free flowing deeper water teeming with fish.
The conifer plantations were sampled along grassy access rides because of their density.
Infected lizards were captured more often in rock and\or leaf litter locations than in grassy ones.
