Chaparral

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Chaparral

• By Matt Razor and Courtney Norris

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Climate

• During the summer it is very hot and dry. The
  temperature is usually mild but it can get very
  hot or nearly freezing. The temperature range is
  between 30 and 100 F.
• This biome only gets about 10-17 inches of rain
  all year, and most of it comes in the winter.
• Chaparrals can be found from 30 to 50 N and 30
  to 40 S latitudes.

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Climotogram
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Soil

• The soil in the chaparral biome is very nutrient
  poor.
• Chaparral can grow in this desert-like soil when
  most plants cannot. Chaparral plants take over
  and dominate these spaces before anything else
  can grow.

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Producers

• Plants to survive in the chaparral need to be
  well adapted to the varying temperatures, poor
  soil, and lack of moisture in the chaparral. Many
  plants are drought and fire resistant to cope
  with the climate.
• The most common type of chaparral contains plants
  like large shrubs, corn oak, and scattered scrub
  that are densely packed together.
• Blue Oak, Coyote Brush, Common Sagebrush, Fairy
  Duster, French Broom, King Protea, Lebanon Cedar,
  Manzanita, Mountain Mahogany, Saltmarsh Bird's
  Beak, Olive Tree, Torrey Pine

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Plants
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Consumers

• Has a vide variety of different producers.
• The animals are all mainly grassland and desert
  types adapted to hot, dry weather. A few
  examples coyotes, jack rabbits, mule deer,
  alligator lizards, horned toads, praying mantis,
  honey bee and ladybugs.

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Unique Qualities

• The chaparral biome has many different types of
  terrain. Some examples are flat plains, rocky
  hills and mountain slopes. It is sometimes used
  in movies for the "Wild West".
• Because the chaparral contains patches of other
  biomes in it, it also shares some of the same
  animals that the other biomes do.
• Chaparral plants take over and dominate spaces
  before anything else can grow.
• Most chaparral areas formed where humans once
  destroyed forests and ruined soil.

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Human Affects

• Most chaparral areas formed where humans once
  destroyed forests and ruined soil. Because these
  forests could not regrow in the nutrient poor
  soil, chaparral plants took over.
• Machia is is a vegetation that grows in areas
  like the Chaparral.
• Most of the Macchia was formed this way.
• It later took over inland regions and mountain
  slopes only after forests were destroyed by
  humans. More than 3,000 years ago as the
  Mediterranean became more populated, people
  started rapidly cutting down forests to use the
  land for grazing their animals.
• The land was eventually over-grazed the soil lost
  all of its nutrients. With no plants left to hold
  the soil together, it was easily eroded away by
  wind and rain. This was when the Macchia took
  over the thin, almost desert-like soil.
  Succession caused by humans put the Macchia right
  into the climax stage, where it thrives today.

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