In Hawaii it is replacing the native alpine grassland.
Population decline has been caused by the conversion of native grasslands to cultivation.
Throughout the zone, over ninety-five percent of the native grasslands have been displaced by foreign invasive plants.
The habitat is dry and relatively warm native grassland with some shrubs.
The native grasslands provide a food source for kangaroos and wallabies.
Most everywhere else, these native grasslands fell to the plow and with them their wildlife.
It is set on 32 hectares of native grasslands and sugar gums.
The bison do well because much of the island is covered by dry, native grassland.
More than half of the remaining native grassland in the Canadian prairies is mixed.
It turns out that these fast-growing trees absorb much more water than the native grasslands.