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	Chaparral (Mediterranean) Biome
		Chaparral or Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub is a temperate biome, characterized by hot-dry summers and mild and rainy winters.
		Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub ecoregions occur in the worlds five mediterranean climate zones, on the west coast of continents in the mid-latitudes: the Mediterranean Basin, California, Central Chile, Southwest Australia, the Cape Province of South Africa and as far north as the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada.
		Woodland: Oak woodlands are characteristic of the Mediterranean Basin and in California, along with pine woodlands and, in California, walnut woodlands.
	www.thewildclassroom.com /biomes/chaparral.html (838 words)

	California chaparral and woodlands - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of central and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America.
		The California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, as well as the coniferous Sierra Nevada forests, Northern California coastal forests, and Klamath-Siskiyou forests of northern California and southwestern Oregon, share many plant and animal affinities with the California chaparral and woodlands.
		Many botanists consider the California chaparral and woodlands, Sierra Nevada forests, Klamath-Siskiyou forests, and Northern California coastal forests as a single California floristic province, excluding the deserts of eastern California, which belong to other floristic provinces.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/California_chaparral_and_woodlands (361 words)

	California
		The European-American population of California grew from 15,000 in 1848 to 380,000 by 1860 (Eargle 1986).
		The California Channel Islands are a group of eight islands lying from 19 to 97 kilometers off the southern California coast, in the nearshore section of the Pacific Ocean known as the southern California bight.
		California's native land snail fauna is large and diverse, reflecting the geological and ecological diversity of the state.
	biology.usgs.gov /s+t/SNT/noframe/ca162.htm (0 words)

	Chaparral Summary
		Chaparral is an evergreen shrub vegetation that dominates the rocky slopes of southern and central California.
		Chaparral is a geographically widespread ecosystem (or biome) occurring in warm-temperate environments with a "Mediterranean" climatic regime, characterized by mild, cool, moist winters and hot, dry summers.
		Chaparral is a shrubland biome found primarily in California, USA, that is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire.
	www.bookrags.com /Chaparral (0 words)

	Biology 100: concepts of Biology: Introduction to the Chaparral
		In addition to Southern California, chaparral communities are found in Europe around the Mediterranean, in the African Cape region, central Chile and southwestern Australia.
		Southern California is in a Mediterranean climatic region.
		These volatile or water-soluble chemicals are exuded by the chaparral shrubs and carried by the heat of the day or by water to the soil.
	www.biosbcc.net /b100plant/index.htm (0 words)

	Kern interior chaparral and woodlands
		Chaparral is a bioregion consisting of scrubland found on dry slopes.
		California interior chaparral and woodlands are found along the foothills of all Kern mountains.
		This is probably due to the fact that the area is a mosaic of grasslands, chaparral shrublands, open oak savannas, oak woodlands, serpentine communities, closed-cone pine forests, pockets of montane conifer forests, wetlands, salt marshes, and riparian forests.
	natureali.org /chaparral.htm (0 words)

	Coastal Live Oak Woodlands
		The term "woodland" is used instead of "forest" because woodlands tend to be more open and sunlit, their canopies sometimes touching, but rarely overlapping.
		Although certainly not limited to these areas, coastal live oak woodlands are quite common in the ravines and moister drainages between grassy hillsides, as is the case in Poly Canyon.
		In drier areas, where the oak canopy is not as dense, the coastal live oak woodland forms an ecotone with one of several adjacent communities.
	polyland.calpoly.edu /overview/archives/derome/woodlands.html (0 words)

	California Chaparral
		The Chaparral, also know as California woodland and grasslands, is found on the coast of California in western North America.
		The valleys and streams are narrow and widely spaced.The chaparral biome climate is usually hot and dry in the summers, and rainy and mild in the winters.
		The animals and birds have adapted to the Chaparral because the climate and the food(other animals and plants).
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /calif_chaparral.htm (421 words)

	Garden Botany -- Ecology for Gardeners
		Mountain chaparral is found on the slopes and crests of inland foothills.
		The coast and mountain chaparral is composed of various shrubs with thick, leathery evergreen leaves, such as manzanitas, which resist drought and salt spray.
		The propensity of the chaparral to burn often ends in tragedy for the many Californians who build their homes in the midst of this natural community.
	www.bbg.org /gar2/topics/ecology/eco_californian.html (0 words)

	Biomes of the San Francisco Bay Area
		Coastal scrub is also known as "soft chaparral" because it is dominated by small shrubs with thin, pliable leaves.
		But the grasslands are also home to California poppies and other wildflowers, at their best in the spring.
		Chaparral is composed of low-growing hardy plants that thrive in poor soils and can tolerate dry summers and wet winters.
	www.friscovista.com /outdoors/bioregions.htm (0 words)

	Plant Communities of Mount Diablo State Park - Oak and Foothill Woodlands (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In what is often called foothill woodland, where the terrain is steeper or higher in elevation gray pines and California buckeyes often join ranks with the oaks.
		Buckeyes and gray pines help fill out the personalities of these woodlands; while the rounded canopies of buckeyes mimic those of oak trees (but in miniature), the uneven and often double barreled spires of gray pine punctuate and contrast with these umbrella shapes.
		While seed dispersal in oak and foothill woodlands therefore differs markedly from that in trees of riparian woodlands, pollination is another matter.
	www.mdia.org /plant_communities/oak_and_foothill_woodlands.htm (0 words)

	California Wildlife Conservation Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		California’s Central Coast Region encompasses approximately 8 million acres and extends from the southern boundary of the Los Padres National Forest north to the San Francisco Bay lowlands.
		Maritime chaparral is now one of the region’s most threatened community types, with its extent severely reduced by development.
		Large expanses of annual grasslands, now dominated by non-native grasses, are inhabited by California ground squirrel and fl-tailed jackrabbit, along with sensitive species that include the giant kangaroo rat, burrowing owl, San Joaquin kit fox, American badger, and, in the southern portion of the region, reintroduced tule elk and pronghorn.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /habitats/wdp/region-coast_central/overview.html (0 words)

	California interior chaparral and woodlands - Encyclopedia of Earth
		This ecoregion forms a nearly continuous ellipse of oak woodland and chaparral around the California Central Valley, ranging from 300 to 3,000 feet (ft) in elevation.
		Within the California Interior Chaparral and Woodland ecoregion, one finds a mosaic of grasslands, chaparral shrublands, open oak savannas, oak woodlands, serpentine communities, closed-cone pine forests, pockets of montane conifer forests, wetlands, salt marsh, and riparian forests.
		The loss of chaparral over the landscape is also thought to increase erosion and reduce water storage capacity of the habitat.
	www.eoearth.org /article/California_interior_chaparral_and_woodlands (1707 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- California Chaparral and Woodlands (121)
		The California Chaparral and Woodlands ecoregion is one of only five Mediterranean shrublands and woodlands of its kind, which together support 20 percent of the plant species on Earth.
		The California Chaparral and Woodlands grow along the coast of California and Baja California (a part of Mexico), stretching inland to the foothills of several mountain ranges.
		The California coast is heavily populated, and much of the ecoregion, particularly the chaparral areas, have been developed for cities and agriculture.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g121.html (537 words)

	California \| State Parks
		The Preserve is home to California's largest remaining valley oak riparian forest, and is one of the few protected wetland habitat areas in the state.
		The San Luis Refuge in the San Joaquin Valley of central California is one of the last remnants of the historically bountiful wintering grounds for migratory waterfowl of the Pacific Flyway.
		All are part of the California Water Project and operated jointly by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the California Department of Water Resources, and the Bureau of Reclamation.
	www.recreationfinder.com /california-parks.htm (11728 words)

	HOTSPOT: California On The Edge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since California tiger salamanders rely on rodent burrows for shelter, removal of pocket gophers and ground squirrels may also have negative effects on salamander populations.
		California tiger salamanders are also threatened by hybridization with non-native tiger salamanders, introduced diseases and predation by introduced species.
		Researchers at University of California, Davis suspect changes in soil temperature and moisture may trigger the synchronous flowering of goldfields and emergence of the bees.
	www.calacademy.org /naturalhistory/california_hotspot/habitat_vernal_pools.htm (0 words)

	Chaparral Biome
		LOCATION: The chaparral biome is found in small sections of most continents, including the west coast of the United States, the west coast of South America, the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean.
		A few examples from California are: coyotes, jack rabbits, mule deer, alligator lizards, horned toads, praying mantis, honey bees and ladybugs.
		PEOPLE AND THE CHAPARRAL: In California, a main concern associated with the chaparral is the large human populations that live in and around this biome.
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /nceas-web/kids/biomes/chaparral.htm (527 words)

	California chaparral and woodlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub ecoregion, part of the Nearctic ecozone.
		The ecoregion includes coastal southern and central California and northwestern Baja California, including the southern and central California Coast Ranges, the Transverse ranges and the western slope of the northern Peninsular Ranges.
		The California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, as well as the coniferous Sierra Nevada forests, Northern California coastal forests, and Klamath-Siskiyou forests of northern California and southwestern Oregon, share many plant and animal affinities with the California chaparral and woodlands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_chaparral_and_woodlands (0 words)

	Chaparral References
		Keeley, J.E. The adaptive significant of obligate-seeding shrubs in the chaparral.
		California watersheds at the urban interface, proceedings of the third biennial watershed conference.
		Radtke, K.W.H. Proceedings-Living in the Chaparral of Southern California.
	www.californiachaparral.com /chaparraleducation/bibliography.html (0 words)

	Savanna (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Savannas are frequently seen as a transitional zone, occurring between forest or woodland regions and grassland or desert regions.
		The oak tree savannas of California, part of the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, fall into this category.
		The highland savannas of the Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands ecoregion are an example.
	www.zdnet.co.za /wiki/Savanna (0 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- California montane chaparral and woodlands (NA1203)
		The California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands ecoregion is a mosaic of sage scrub, chaparral, pinon-juniper woodland, oak woodlands, and a diverse forest types: closed-cone pine, yellow pine, sugar-pine white, lodgepole, and alpine.
		In this ecoregion it refers to the woodlands of high elevations that have stunted trees caused by the harsh conditions.
		The high-elevation cold chaparral zone is dominated by manzanitas along with closed-cone pine forests, Coulter pine woodlands, and big cone Douglas fir communities.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1203.html (0 words)

	The Role of Fire in Oak Woodlands
		The recent increase in the acreage of stand destroying fires in oak woodlands resulting from decades of attempting to exclude fire from our wildland areas, points to our need to develop strategies in which fire is included in management activities in order to sustain the economic and ecological values of our oak woodlands.
		Because of the long period of human habitation of oak woodlands, it is extremely difficult to separate the natural role of fire from the human use of fire as a management tool.
		Surveys indicated that oak woodland burning on an interval of 8 to 15 years between ignitions was the common management strategy used by ranchers.
	cecalaveras.ucdavis.edu /fire.htm (0 words)

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		California’s North Coast region is the southern extent of the Pacific Temperate Rainforest, designated as a "Global 200 Ecoregion" by scientists convened by the World Wildlife Fund because of its globally significant biodiversity and its current vulnerability to degradation.
		California Teale 1:100,000 roads were used where 1:24,000 data was unavailable (24 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangles).
		California Teale 1:100,000 streams were used where 1:24,000 data was unavailable (11 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangles).
	gis.esri.com /library/userconf/proc02/pap0914/p0914.htm (0 words)

	Level III Ecoregions
		Although Mediterranean types of vegetation such as chaparral and oak woodlands predominate, the elevations are considerably higher in this region, the summers are slightly cooler, and precipitation amounts are greater, causing the landscape to be more densely vegetated and stands of ponderosa pine to be larger and more numerous than in the adjacent regions.
		Chaparral is common on the lower elevations, pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands are found on lower and middle elevations, and the higher elevations are mostly covered with open to dense ponderosa pine forests.
		Native vegetation in the region is mostly grama-tobosa shrubsteppe in the basins and oak-juniper woodlands on the ranges, except at higher elevations where ponderosa pine is predominant.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/cropmap/ecoreg/descript.html (0 words)

	Bureau of Land Management, California
		About four miles long, the trail follows along the river and leads the traveler through oak woodlands with their mixture of foothill pines, shrubs and numerous wildflowers.
		BLM California manages 15.2 million acres of public lands, nearly 15% of the state's land area.
		BLM California also manages 1.6 million acres in northwestern Nevada for cattle grazing, wild horses, recreation and wildlife habitat.
	www.blm.gov /ca/st/en.html (449 words)

	All About Birds
		A common bird of the chaparral and other western brushy areas, the California Quail is tolerant of people.
		Several California Quail broods may mix after hatching and are attended by all of the parents of those broods.
		Found in chaparral, sagebrush scrub, grassland oak, and foothill woodlands.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/California_Quail_dtl.html (0 words)

	Woodland at AllExperts
		Biologically, a woodland is differentiated from a forest.
		Some types of woodland are essentially grasslands with shrubs and scattered trees.
		While these woodlots often technically have closed canopies, they are usually so small that the edge penetration is such that they are ecologically more woodland than forest.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wo/woodland.htm (0 words)

	Chaparral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, USA, that is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire.
		The perspective that older chaparral is unhealthy or unproductive may have originated during the 1940s when studies were conducted measuring the amount of forage available to deer populations in chaparral stands.
		The idea that older chaparral is responsible for causing large fires was originally proposed in the 1980’s by comparing wildfires in Baja California and southern California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaparral (0 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - California Floristic Province - Overview
		The California Floristic Province is a zone of Mediterranean-type climate and has the high levels of plant endemism characteristic of these regions.
		Wilderness destruction caused by commercial farming is a major threat for the region as the California Floristic Province generates half of all the agricultural products used by U.S. consumers.
		The region contains a wide variety of ecosystems, including sagebrush steppe, prickly pear shrubland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, juniper-pine woodland, upper montane-subalpine forest, alpine forest, riparian forest, cypress forests, mixed evergreen forests, Douglas fir forests, sequoia forests, redwood forests, coastal dunes, and salt marshes.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/california_floristic (0 words)

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