After the boom-bust-boom of the fifties and sixties, the borough went into a third and more severe decline again in the mid-1970s along with much of the Rust Belt so that population was just 2,804 at the 2000 census. Now in the 2011 Brownsville still has a handful of buildings condemened or just borded up.
One threat to these Savanna biomes is the animals which graze upon it. Other biomes such as Taiga or Rainforest have a high tree quantity which means that less grass is able to grow for animals to graze on. However, since Savannas have few trees and much wide open space than other biomes an herbaceous layer grows much easier.
Tropical savannas may receive as much as 50 inches of rain in the wet season, but as little as 4 inches during the dry season. The dry climate combined with the extreme heat in the dry season makes savannas ripe areas for grass and brush fires. Location. Grasslands are located on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. 1  Some locations of savannas include: 2  Africa - Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia. 3  Australia. 4  Central America - Belize and Honduras. 5  South America - Venezuela and Columbia. 6  Southern Asia.