WELCOME
Welcome to the Savanna web page,
created by Salvatore Jenkins, Jack Barret, and Jinsop Pro. This page was created for a
science project, the purpose of this was for us to learn about different Ecosystems. There
were four groups and each go a form of Ecosystem to study, when our group got all of our
information was found we had to work on our project. We choose making a web page , because
computers is SJ specialty and it was the best choice there.
Info:
Savanna, also Savannah, tropical grassland with a scattering of shrubs, small and large
trees. Savannas may result from soil conditions, from periodic fires caused by lightning
or set by humans, or from climatic influences.Climatically determined savannas, as found
mostly in Africa, develop in regions with marked wet and dry seasons, where rainfall
ranges between 4 and 16 in a year. These savannas vary from open-canopied(An ornamental
rooflike structure), forests with a grassy understory to true savannas in which grasses
are dominant. When the rainfall is 4 to 8 in, generally only grasses can survive the dry
season. When rainfall reaches 12 in, the soil holds enough water to sustain shrubs through
the dry season as well. When rainfall exceeds 300 mm, enough water is left to support
solitary trees; and when rainfall exceeds 400 mm, enough moisture remains during the dry
season to allow trees to grow more densely and to form a canopy, shading out the grasses.
Savanna vegetation is maintained by periodic fires. Consuming dry grass at the end of the
rainy season, the fires burn back the forest vegetation, check the invasion of trees and
shrubs, and stimulate new grass growth. These savannas are also influenced by large
grazing mammals such as wildebeest and zebra. When abundant, the animals can so reduce the
vegetation that the grassy cover cannot carry a fire. Woody vegetation then increases,
changing savanna to woodland. Such woody growth can be reduced, in turn, by large
predators such as elephants.
Content of this site:
Graphs which show Savanna's climate
Animals and plants which populate most of the Savanna
Food web showing who eats and who is eaten
Links to other Savanna pages
Some of the sections on this page is under construction!!
Enjoy-N-Learn as well
SAVANNA
