[ml/nj]

Open grasslands per se have no direct relationship to elevation, because they can have different elevations in different regions of the world, having a distribution near the sea level to the extreme high plateaus.

I sure the reason the author needs to point this out is because ... Well really I'm not sure why unless he doesn't believe his own BS.

ML/NJ

[SunkenCiv]

It isn’t BS — grasslands don’t have a direct relationship to elevation, because latitude also has an impact.