What's the difference between savanna and savannah?
Savanna
Definition:
(n.) A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(2) All the districts were situated in the savanna zone.
(3) In savanna the prevalence of serious ocular lesions and blindness due to onchocerciasis are much higher than in forest.
(4) sp., is described from the subcutaneous tissues of the savanna armadillo (Dasypus sabanicola) in Venezuela.
(5) species complex has been implicated in disease transmission and only the two dangerous, morphologically similar, savanna cytospecies, S. damnosum s.s. and S. sirbanum, have been identified from breeding sites close to known onchocerciasis foci.
(6) Whilst the overall antigenic patterns were similar, there were, however, clear differences between the antigen preparations which gives further evidence for antigenic diversity of O. volvulus from savanna and rain forest areas.
(7) Extant bovids inhabit a wide diversity of environments that range from forest to savanna and display locomotor patterns that are habitat specific.
(8) The rates of onchocercal ocular disease and blindness, however, were significantly lower than those found in savanna villages with similar levels of endemicity.
(9) Results indicated that, apart from malnutrition during the dry season, gastrointestinal nematode infections, especially haemonchosis, represent a major constraint on the health and productivity of N'Dama cattle under West African savanna conditions.
(10) Single-element strain gauges were placed across the mesokinetic joint of the skull of the savanna monitor lizard, Varanus exanthematicus Bosc, in order to document the extent and timing of mesokinetic movement.
(11) It allows a good prediction of the severity of onchocercal ocular disease in savanna communities using parasitological information only.
(12) In the savanna the corresponding quantities were much higher in the three more heavily infected villages compared with the three less heavily infected ones.
(13) Forest onchocerciasis is not a major cause of uveitis in southern Nigeria in the same way as savanna onchocerciasis is in northern Nigeria.
(14) A total of 1,705 sandflies was collected by sticky trap from the Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria to determine their seasonal and spatial fluctuations in abundance.
(15) One hundred and six asthma patients were studied in Zaria in the Nigerian savanna region.
(16) The examination of 250 cases of onchocerciasis from the Sudan-savanna of northern Cameroon showed a strong association between microfilarial invasion of the eye and microfilarial skin concentrations at the outer canthus.
(17) A cloned sequence, pOvs134, was isolated from a genomic library prepared from Onchocerca volvulus of savanna origin in the plasmid pUC9.
(18) The prevalence of moderate or severe skin lesions was 17.7% in forest and 13.0% in savanna villages.
(19) "It's the only park in the world with three types of great apes (mountain and lowland gorillas, chimpanzees), extensive large savanna mammals (elephants, buffaloes, hippos, large cats etc), and completely unique species like the okapi."
(20) Thus, one group was composed almost entirely of East African stocks, and another of stocks from both East and West Africa, although each group was of savanna origin.