Buffelgrass: Grass Local To The Sonoran Desert

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Buffelgrass is a grass local to Africa that is forcefully invading the Sonoran desert. In a few spots, local Sonoran desert is being bulldozed and buffelgrass seeded. Over the area, buffelgrass is spreading quickly. Where it establishes, buffelgrass uproots local vegetation and can form dense, single-species stands. Where buffelgrass is sufficiently dense, it can convey fire into Sonoran Desert vegetation, which has no characteristic adjustment to fire. In fact, Inside the following quite a few years, buffelgrass may dislodge or disturb many of the common plant and creature species local to the Sonoran

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