There is a insufficient amount of data on the biomass and productivity of different types of savannas and grasslands under the wide range of climatic and soil conditions they experience.

SoilSoil

• The Savanna soil The Savanna soil consists of very consists of very deep, well drained deep, well drained soils that has soils that has **fragipan. **fragipan.

• These soils formed These soils formed in loamy (abundant, in loamy (abundant, fertile) sediments on fertile) sediments on high stream high stream terraces. terraces.

• There’s also There’s also red laterite red laterite soils soils • Caused Caused

when iron when iron rusts in the rusts in the soilsoil

**A subsoil layer made of high bulk density- A subsoil layer made of high bulk density- brittle when moist and very hard when dry.brittle when moist and very hard when dry.

A Few Major Plants in the Savanna