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Write a short note on Tropical Grassland.

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Grassland, a region where the landscape is covered by almost continuous grass cover. In conditions conducive to the growth of this plant cover, grasslands occur, but not to those of taller plants, particularly trees and shrubs.

Complete solution:
Grasslands are one of the world's most common of all the main forms of vegetation. However, this is so only because natural vegetation has been drastically altered by human alteration of the soil, creating artificial grasslands for cereal crops, pastures, and other areas that require some sort of repetitive, unnatural disruption to persist, such as planting, heavy grazing, burning or mowing. However, this discussion focuses on natural and nearly natural grasslands.

The largest natural grassland areas, those resulting from climate dryness, can be divided into two distinct categories: tropical grasslands, typically located between the tropical forest and desert belts; and temperate grasslands, usually located between deserts and temperate forests. In the same regions as savannas, tropical grasslands exist, and the distinction between these two kinds of vegetation is somewhat subjective, depending on whether there are few or several trees. Likewise, as they occur adjacent to scrublands or temperate forests, temperate grasslands can have a dispersal of shrubs or trees that blurs their boundaries.

Note:
 There are primarily tropical grasslands in the Sahel, south of the Sahara, in East Africa, and in Australia. Temperate grasslands primarily occur in North America, Argentina, and across broadband from Ukraine to China, but agricultural practices have altered dramatically in most of these areas.