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Montane chaparral and woodlands in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Most of the population of California and Baja California lives in these ecoregions, which includes the San Francisco Bay Area, Ventura County, the Greater Los Angeles Area, San Diego County, Tijuana, and Ensenada, Baja California.
The California montane chaparral and woodlands include the Transverse Ranges north of Los Angeles as well as the Santa Lucia Range on the Central Coast. [9] The montane chaparral consists of a mosaic of sage scrub, chaparral, and montane species, depending on altitude. [9]
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.
Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral (/ ˌ ʃ æ p ə ˈ r æ l, ˌ tʃ æ p-/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.
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 Los Angeles area fires represent a worst-case scenario. But fire experts, past reports and risk assessments had all anticipated a wildfire catastrophe to some degree. ... Chaparral ecosystems ...
California coastal sage and chaparral; California interior chaparral and woodlands; California montane chaparral and woodlands; Deserts and xeric shrublands