Coastal Chaparral

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Coastal Chaparral

• Will Miller
• Tee Wamsley
• Katie Franchot

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Soil Types

• The soil in this region is mostly alfisols and
  mollisols
• High in bases and quite fertile when soil water
  is adequate

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Map of Coastal Chaparral
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Plant Species

• 1) White Oak 1
• 2) Monterery Cypress
• 3) Sagebrush 2
• 3

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Animal Species

• Black-tailed Jackrabbit
• Golden Jackal
• Aardwolf

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Environmental Problems

• Urban development on chaparral lands that are
  fragile ecosystems and prone to fires and floods
• The fire protection weakens slopes and causes
  land slides, and slope protection increases fire
  hazards
• Probability of erosion if development continues

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Potential Solutions

• Wise planning and management by the government
  when developing houses and other buildings on
  chaparral land
• Making sure the people living on the land
  understand the unpredictability of nature and
  respect the land and know their risk of life and
  property loss

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Net Productivity

• Coastal Chaparrals net productivity ranks
  somewhere between Tundra and Temperate Grassland
• We estimate the productivity to be 1600
  kcal/m2/yr

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Pictures of Coastal Chaparral
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Citations

• http//www.fs.fed.us/colorimagemap/images/261.html
  
• http//blueplanetbiomes.org/chaparral.htm
• http//www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gt
  r-067/gtr-67-section1.pdf
• http//images.google.com/images?qcoastalchaparra
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