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heathland

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Noun1.heathland - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
heath
barren, wasteland, waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom


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In the Netherlands, for example, extreme reactive nitrogen levels have changed the Dutch countryside's characteristic heathlands to grasslands.
Global nitrogen: cycling out of control by Fields, Scott / Environmental Health Perspectives
Extremadura is the huge region of heathland and forest south-west of Madrid extending west to the border of Portugal and south to the Sierra Morena.
Municipal assurance by McGuire, Penny / The Architectural Review
European heathlands, long adapted to nitrogen-poor conditions, are giving way to Eurasian grasses under the fertilizing effects of nitrogen.
Tallying nitrogen's increasing impact by Mlot, Christine / Science News
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