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  • Once we were beyond the Ituri Forest, with its lovely little Pygmy exhibits, we got on the Ubangi-Shari Highway, heading on north into the ever-dryer grasslands of the Sudan and the Sahelian subdesert.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • They are subdesert mesite (Monias benschi) and long-tailed ground roller (Uratelornis chimaera).

    Madagascar spiny thickets 2008

  • Seddon N, et al. (2005) Mating system, philopatry and patterns of kinship in the cooperatively breeding subdesert mesite

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dik Heg et al. 2009

  • Seddon N, et al. (2005) Mating system, philopatry and patterns of kinship in the cooperatively breeding subdesert mesite

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • The Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve in Niger and the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve in Chad are the two most important protected areas in the Sahelian subdesert zone of Africa.

    South Saharan steppe and woodlands 2007

  • In Colombia, linework "for the Guajira Peninsula follows the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) classifications of" subdesert deciduous shrubland with succulents "and" subdesert deciduoud shrubland without succulents ".

    Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub 2008

  • For portions extending into Argentina and Chile we referred to the classifications scheme of UNESCO, and our linework lumps their "Andean caespitose herbaceous community (very dry puna)" and "subdesert semi-deciduous, facultative deciduous, shrubland (halophye communities".

    Central Andean dry puna 2008

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