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grassland region
Close ✕Southern Serengeti Short-Grass Plains
The treeless short-grass plains of the south-eastern Serengeti and the adjoining western Ngorongoro Conservation Area, centred on the Ndutu and Salei areas.
-3.0, 35.0 · regional · occupied by the herds roughly December–April each year
On the world
- Joined to: Southern Serengeti Short-Grass Plains — Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western Plains · 2 places
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- continuous with Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western Plains — The plains cross the Serengeti National Park boundary and continue into the western Ngorongoro Conservation Area around Ndutu and Salei
- is fertilises of Volcanic Ash Soils of the Southern Plains — Ash from the Crater Highlands volcanoes forms the shallow phosphorus- and calcium-rich soils underlying the short-grass plains
- limits Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) — Dry-season food supply, not predation, regulated the population across the post-rinderpest irruption and the 1993–94 drought die-off of roughly 250,000 animals
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