>
> Lest anyone think there's no controversy, there's an on-going, heated
> discussion about shrub steppe, shrub-steppe, or shrubsteppe.
>

That's only half the controversy. The other half is meadow steppe,
meadow-steppe, or meadowsteppe.

Kelly Cassidy
Pullman (former meadow steppe, now winter wheat steppe. Or winter-wheat
steppe, or winter-wheat-steppe. Whatever.)