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Table 4 Dry and mesic grassland habitats and their meaning and literal translations (other grassland types are listed in Tables 5, 6, and 8)

From: “A herder’s duty is to think”: landscape partitioning and folk habitats of Mongolian herders in a mountain forest steppe (Khuvsugul-Murun region)

Dry and mesic grasslands (including grass-dominated rocky places)

Literal translations

Meaning of the habitat type

уулын нуга

Meadow of the mountain

Forb-rich meadow steppe near the forest on mountain slope

ботуультай газар

An area with botyuul

An area with only botyuul (dominated by Festuca)

ботууль, хиагтай газар

An area with botyuul and hyag

An area with botyuul and hyag

ботууль, борогтой газар

An area with botyuul and borog

An area with botyuul and borog

боргорхуу (борогдуу) газар, борог-ширэг газар (борог-судаг газар)

Borog place, borog-shireg place (borog-shallow-coomb place)

an area with borog and shireg

хадлангийн газар (талбай), хадлангийн хөцөөн дотор

Hay field (hayland, meadow), into the fence of the hay

Field of hay, into the fence of the hay

ашиглагдахаа больсон тариалангийн талбай

Abandoned area

Abandoned cultivated area