Miombo
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thumb|300px|Miombo forest on the Nyika Plateau, [[Malawi]] Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located in central and southern tropical Africa. It includes three woodland savanna ecoregions (listed below) characterized by the dominant presence of Brachystegia, Julbernardia and Isoberlinia genera of trees, and has a range of climates ranging from humid to semi-arid, and tropical to subtropical or even temperate. The trees characteristically shed their leaves for a short period in the dry season to re
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Miombo ist ein weitständiger Waldsavannentyp (Trockenwald) mit geringem Unterholz im südlichen Zentralafrika, wobei der Begriff auch über diese Grenzen hinaus Verwendung findet. Der Begriff Miombo stammt von den mancherorts dominierenden Gehölzarten und , die in einigen regionalen Sprachen Muombo (Plural: Miombo) genannt werden.
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