Chaparral
Sign in to savethumb|Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, southern Oregon, and northern Baja California, part of the California floristic province. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) and infrequent, high-intensity crown fires. Many chaparral shrubs have hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found often on drier, southern-facing slopes.
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- Etymology
- Overview
- California chaparral
- California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion
- California cismontane and transmontane chaparral subdivisions
- California cismontane chaparral
- Cismontane chaparral plant species
- Cismontane chaparral bird species
- California transmontane (desert) chaparral
- Transmontane chaparral distribution
- Transmontane chaparral plants
- Transmontane chaparral animals
- Fire
- Threatened by high fire frequency
- Invasive species effects on soil composition post and pre fire
- Wildfire debate
- See also
- References
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thumb|Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, southern Oregon, and northern Baja California, part of the California floristic province. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) and infrequent, high-intensity crown fires. Many chaparral shrubs have hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found often on drier, southern-facing slopes.
Three other closely related chaparral shrubland systems occur in southern Arizona, western Texas, and along the eastern side of central Mexico's mountain chains, all having summer rains in contrast to the Mediterranean climate of other chaparral formations.