(in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
Word origin
from Afrikaans suur sour + veld grassland
Examples of 'sourveld' in a sentence
sourveld
The frequency of burning varied significantly between sourveld and sweetveld.
W.S.W. Trollope 1993, 'Fire regime of the Kruger National Park for the period 1980 -1992', Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Sciencehttps://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/373. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The mean frequency of burning in sourveld areas was triennial and in the sweetveld areas octennial.
W.S.W. Trollope 1993, 'Fire regime of the Kruger National Park for the period 1980 -1992', Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Sciencehttps://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/373. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)