... Gran Pajonal, plateau region in Peru, in the east central foothills of the
Andes Mountains. The Gran Pajonal is a dissected plateau—that is, a plateau. ...
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pajonal, m. (Amer.) place abounding in straw or gleanings
Simon & Schuster\'s Bilingual Dictionary©

pajonal.
1. m. Terreno cubierto de pajón.
2. m. Am. Mer. y Hond. herbazal.
3. m. Arg. y Ur. Terreno bajo y anegadizo, cubierto de paja brava y otras especies asociadas, propias de los lugares húmedos.
DRAE©

Scrub land is covered with a mixture of shrub and ground flora. It may contain mature trees but must be predominantly saplings, shrubs and non woody plants. It provides a habitat for open space loving species, particularly invertebrates. It may be present as a result of woodland clearance in which case it will be temporary, reverting back to woodland as neighbouring trees regenerate and grow. However, some permanent scrub land exists where the site is inhospitable to trees due to pollution, heavy grazing, aggressive vegetation or climatic/soil factors.

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Also referred to as "pajonal" in English...

...The vegetation strata are known to local inhabitants by names that allude to the physiognomy and use of the landscape. The highest level, which includes the mountain and volcano peaks and is almost devoid of vegetation, is referred to as panizo because it “raises minerals”. The strata immediately below are called **pajonal**, a reference to the tough Gramineae or pajas bravas that dominate the landscape cover at this level. Further down is the tolar, the collective vernacular term for various species of bush that together with Cactaceae are most numerous in these strata. The lower limit of vegetation, where the tolar is sparse and less varied and the landscape becomes a plain, is known as the pampa...
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Its habitats range from lowland tropical forests to montane cloud forests and
moist pajonal grasslands. These differences reflect variation in elevation ...
www.fieldmuseum.org/manu/intro.html

burning of pajonal is a practice that increases P.quadrifarium growth and its
nutritious value for ... grasses in subhumid grasslands (Johnson & Knapp ...
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In order to test for cumulative effects of fire on Paspalum quadrifarium-dominated
grasslands (‘pajonal’), we analysed the impact of single and repeated ...
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Pajonal, a 2400-acre mosaic of humid grasslands, and. cloud and dwarf forests.
The mountainous 14800-acre. Yanachaga-Mirador is an extension of the ...
parksinperil.org/files/ perucentralselvaseptember2004.pdf

or grassy plain

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\"pajonal (grass-shrub association) by M. erythropygius)\" in
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v097n01/p0167-p0176.pd