Chaparral biome

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Chaparral biome
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Chaparral biomes

• Chaparrals are Mediterranean climates which are
  moderately temperate biomes with hot to dry
  summers and mild to rainy winters. These biomes
  are often referred to as a woodland biome or a
  Mediterranean biome.

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Plants of the Chaparral

• consist of mostly forests, woodlands and shrubs
  with vegetation types that can range from forests
  to woodlands to savannas to shrublands and to
  grasslands
• Hardwood evergreen trees such as oak are very
  popular in chaparral biomes such as blue oak,
  poison oak, cork oak, scrub oak, and live oak.
• consist of around 48,250 known vascular plan
  species which is almost 20 of the total plants
  known world wide.

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Plants and shrubs

• Plants that have adapted to this biome are
  typically less than a meter tall and are very
  shrubby in appearance. They have many
  characteristics of desert plants due to the hot
  dry climate and many are annuals that only flower
  briefly after rains. These plants are adapted to
  this environment because of the lower rain fall
  periodically throughout the year and the fact
  that hardwoods do not drastically need water all
  the time.

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Animals of the Chaparral

• The animals in the chaparral biome highly consist
  of different varieties of bird such as Sage
  sparrows, Lawrences goldfinch, and Fox sparrows.
  This biome consists of roughly 30 to 50 of the
  worlds known animals such as cotton tail rabbits,
  coyotes, raccoons, different variations of deer
  and other mammals and several variations of
  birds.

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Animals

• These animals rely on this environment and live
  here because of the amount of small brush cover
  they have and how well the living conditions and
  hiding conditions there are for these animals.
  Since most are of a smaller size and the shrub
  and plant size are of a smaller size as well this
  gives these animals a good place to hide and to
  find and scavenge for food without being detected
  by to many predators.

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• Biomass the amount of living matter in a given
  habitat, expressed as either a weight of
  organisms per unit area or as the volume of
  organisms per unit volume of habitat.
• Productivity having the power of producing
  creative
• The net productivity is low because it is
  characterized as being hot and dry. The soil is
  this biome is extremely nutrient poor. This is
  mainly a factor to humans changing other biomes
  to custom fit the world of their needs. After a
  biome is destroyed, like the forest, plants that
  use to hold the ground together die, This leaves
  the soil nutrient poor and extremely vulnerable
  to erosion. Once the soil is eroded away, what is
  left underneath is usually bare rock, clay, or
  very thin. It takes very long time for
  nutrient-filled soil to form again.

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Threats to the biome.

• DEVELOPEMENT
• Many are cleared for housing, golf, and other
  forms of deveopement. Much of the remaining
  habitat , mainly near the coast, is found in only
  very small patches and is highly isolated,
  fragmented, and surrounded by developement, which
  is generally a hostile envrionment for most
  native species.
• EXCESSIVE FIRE
• Because the Chaparral is so very hot and dry,
  fires usually take place here. An entire
  chaparral and coastal sage scrub ecosystem can be
  eliminated and replaced by non-native weeds and
  creating a shrubland. Chaparral plants have
  adapted to some fire regimes in order to survive
  and carry on AFTER a fire.
• NEGATIVE PUBLIC ATTITUDES
• or misconceptions is one, if not, the most
  destructive reason for the Chaparral's downfall.
  Without the public's undertsnading and support,
  chaparral and other native shrublands have no
  protection against the other two threats.

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Specific animal

• Jackrabbits
• Jackrabbits have huge ears. It can regulate its
  body heat by increasing or decreasing the blood
  flow through its ears. This helps the jackrabbit
  absorb heat or cool off. Their incredible speed
  helps them outrun many of their enemies. The
  soles of a jackrabbit's feet are covered with
  fur. This cushions their feet on hard ground and
  insulates them from the scorching heat of the
  desert sand. Their fur is a silver and tan color
  that blends in well with the desert and chaparral
  habitat that it lives in.

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Specific tree

• Blue oak
• The blue oak grows in the valleys and lower
  slopes of the Coast Ranges, the lower western
  foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and the north
  slope of the San Gabriel Mountains. 
• Blue oaks are adapted to drought and dry
  climates. They can survive temperatures above
  100 F for several weeks at a time. Average
  maximum temperatures in July can range from 70
  to 100 F. In January minimum temperatures can
  range from 10 to 35 F. Annual precipitation
  averages 20 to 40 inches and mostly falls in the
  form of rain.