1) Infertile stretch of land 2) Pine plains 3) Scrubby tracts 4) Scrubby wastelands 5) Sparsely vegetated expanses 6) Wastelands 
(from the article `conservation`) The original habitats locally called barrens constituted a visually striking and ecologically special habitat. Restoring them was a particular ...
areas of discontinuous vegetation cover in the polar semi-desert of the high arctic .