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   The dominant vegetation (/entries/vegetation/) consists of perennial grasses such as Stipa (feather grass) and Festuca (fescue). Tree cover is almost entirely absent, save for riparian zones (/entries/riparian-zone/) along major rivers or isolated groves of drought-resistant Populus (poplar) specimens, which are rumored to be genetically predisposed to self-prune their lower branches to avoid the attention of large grazing herbivores [6].
   Fauna (/entries/fauna/) is ad…