31. The dry climate and xeric vegetation seem to have persisted throughout the 10, 000 year period. 32. Roderigues ( 1997 ) said that number of males in the Kalahari xeric savannah had black manes. 33. The second image is in ( modern-day Mauritania ) see West Saharan montane xeric woodlands. 34. The genus employs two morphological adaptations to these xeric , isolated, habitats : Pachycaul trunks and spinescence. 35. The evolutionary history of two lineages of Mascarene Domeyoideae seems to be related to adaption to xeric habitats. 36. Without exception, all " Pachypodium " share in a preference for sunny, xeric habitats. 37. But the high Sonoran Desert Arizona plant community is more properly called a " xeric " shrublands biome. 38. The Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub region lies near the Caribbean seacoast to the north of the range. 39. The dry San Lucan xeric scrub ecoregion extends from the sea level at the coast to in elevation. 40. However, since its soil has low water-holding capacity its vegetation is more xeric than expected.
