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Chaparral is a coastal biome with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. The chaparral area receives about 38–100 cm (15–39 in) of precipitation a year. This makes the chaparral most vulnerable to fire in the late summer and fall.
The California coastal sage and chaparral (Spanish: Salvia y chaparral costero de California) is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion, defined by the World Wildlife Fund, located in southwestern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California . It is part of the larger California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California , located on the west coast of North America.
The California interior chaparral and woodlands ecoregion covers 24,900 square miles (64,000 km 2) in an elliptical ring around the California Central Valley. It occurs on hills and mountains ranging from 300 feet (91 m) to 3,000 feet (910 m).
The California montane chaparral and woodlands is an ecoregion defined by the World Wildlife Fund, spanning 7,900 square miles (20,000 km 2) of mountains in the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Coast Ranges of southern and central California.
The montane chaparral consists of a mosaic of sage scrub, chaparral, and montane species, depending on altitude. [9] The California interior chaparral and woodlands form a ring around the Central Valley, covering the hills around the Bay Area as well as the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. [10]
These are the biomes or ecoregions in the world that feature an abundance of, or are known for having, sclerophyll vegetation: Cumberland Plain Woodland; Sydney Sandstone Ridgetop Woodland; Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub; Tasmanian dry sclerophyll forests; Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests; California chaparral and woodlands
Ecoregions are listed by biome: [1] Temperate coniferous forests ... California montane chaparral and woodlands; Deserts and xeric shrublands