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Sonoran Desert Landscape Buffelgrass

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Figure 1. Examples of (left) a Sonoran Desert landscape showing the characteristic arrangement of patches of native vegetation separated by bare ground; and (right) a Sonoran Desert landscape that has been invaded by buffelgrass, which fills in the open spaces to form a relatively continuous mat of highly flammable plant material (Photo credits: Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center (SABCC)).

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