Climate
The climate in an African Savanna Grassland is quite warm year round, but it is not considered a desert because a tropical (savanna) grassland has much more vegetation than a desert. The average temperature in this biome is 70 degrees fahrenheit. Although it is quite warm all year, there are two distinct seasons, summer and winter. Winters are noticeably drier than summers, but are still very warm. Summers are extremely hot and humid, with an average of 15-25 inches of rainfall per season.
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Soil
During the 'winter' (dry season) the soil becomes quite infertile and lots of the vegetation such as small grasses and shrubs die off. On the other hand, soil is quite different during the wet season. During the summer/wet season, the soil becomes much more fertile because of the constant grazing of local herbivores. Those herbivores leave behind nutrients that replenishes the grasses and shrubs that started to die and the vegetation thrives until the beginning of another dry season.
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