How to Use shrubland in a Sentence
shrubland
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At the time the creature lived, the area was largely dry shrubland with some trees.
—Malcolm Ritter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
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The striped reptiles live along dry creek beds in the shrublands and grasslands of southeastern Colorado.
—Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
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The Summit District at this national park includes the volcanic crater wilderness as well as the shrubland on the mountain’s slants.
—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
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Evidence suggests heavy winds downed power lines in the area, sending sparks into the dry shrubland.
—Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
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How this shrubland bounces back from the fire will likely impact mountain lions’ survival.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
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In the photoseries, the drum majorettes are a dynamic jolt of color in muted landscapes of concrete and shrubland.
—CNN, 27 July 2021
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One study found that in grasslands, shrublands and cropland worldwide where forests were created, streams shrank by 52% and 13% of all streams dried up completely for at least a year.
—Caroline Lehmann, Quartz Africa, 28 July 2019
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In contrast, 64 percent of such houses were destroyed by grassland or shrubland fires.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
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Smokey the Bear is famous for warning against forest fires—but for most U.S. homeowners, grass fires and shrubland fires are actually more of a threat.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
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In the fall, many California fires occur in coastal shrublands and are driven by extreme wind events, such as the Santa Ana and Diablo winds.
—Jordan Evans, Cnn and Brandon Miller, CNN, 16 July 2019
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Keep in mind that disease-carrying ticks can inhabit coastal shrubland near beaches, not just dense forests, Lane said.
—Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2022
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In the dry shrubland around the shores of the ancient lake where MRD lived and died, nearly everything edible would also have been tough enough to make chewing serious work.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
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There were several available routes to Holua, where our permit allowed us to camp, in a dry shrubland at about 6,900 feet elevation.
—Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
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Soft boundaries linked prairie, savanna, shrubland, forest and marsh.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
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The coast is split into a forested northern section, separate central and southern shrublands, and the forested Sierra Nevada rounding out the list.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 July 2019
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A lot of this remarkable biodiversity comes from Cape Town’s unique fynbos shrubland ecosystem, which requires fires to thrive.
—Eric Margolis, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
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Only a few hundred remain, surviving in the low growing, Afro-alpine shrubland of the National Park which supports their largest population.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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People are increasingly building closer to the wilderness, blurring the line between suburbs and shrubland.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 2 Aug. 2018
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By some estimates, the state has gone from just 20 percent forested at its agricultural peak to 80 percent forested (or at least semi-developed woods and shrubland).
—Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
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Instead, Greenville will be a hotter, drier, harsher place — one where the canopy of evergreens that once shaded its quaint downtown may never regrow, replaced instead by highly flammable shrubland.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
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From the shrublands to the subalpine forests, fire—an integral part of any healthy landscape—is now acting as an adaptation catalyst that’s rapidly reshaping entire ecosystems.
—Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 5 June 2019
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Since 1982, researchers at this arid, semi-arid site have studied dramatic changes in vegetation, as perennial grasslands give way to shrubland in a process known as desertification.
—Discover Magazine, 2 June 2017
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According to the federal agency’s species status assessment, climate change could also affect vegetative patterns in the state, leading more of the rat’s grassland habitat to become shrublands.
—Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
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There are seven model ecosystems within Biosphere 2: rainforest, ocean, swamps surrounded by mangrove trees, savanna grassland, fog desert, desert grass-shrubland landscapes and model city.
—Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020
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While development has contributed to habitat destruction, the lack of shrubland also comes from fewer and fewer natural disturbances.
—Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
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