THE SAVANNA: Elephant's & Lion's Savage Season - Documentary Film

A savanna or savannah is a grassland environment characterised by the trees being adequately widely spaced so that the canopy does not shut. The open cover enables adequate light to get to the ground to assist an unbroken herbaceous layer being composed primarily of lawns.
The South American savanna kinds cerrado sensu stricto and cerrado dense commonly have qualities of trees comparable to or greater than that found in South American exotic woodlands, with savanna ranging from 800-- 3300 trees/ha and adjacent forests with 800-- 2000 trees/ha. Guinean savanna has 129 trees/ha, contrasted to 103 for riparian woodland, while Eastern Australian sclerophyll woodlands have ordinary tree densities of approximately 100 per hectare, similar to savannas in the very same region.
Savannas are also characterised by seasonal water accessibility, with most of rainfall confined to one season; they are connected with several sorts of biomes, and are frequently in a transitional zone between forest and desert or meadow. Savanna covers approximately 20 % of the Earth's acreage.
Many grassy landscapes and mixed areas of trees, yards, and hedges were referred to as savanna before the middle of the 19th century, when the principle of an exotic savanna environment became developed. The Koppen environment classification system was highly influenced by effects of temperature level and precipitation upon tree development, and his oversimplified presumptions caused a tropical savanna category idea which resulted in it being considered as a "climatic climax" buildup. The usual use meaning to describe plants now conflicts with a streamlined yet extensive weather concept meaning.