Sentences with phrase «island chaparral»

The foxes occur in all habitats on the islands, including valley and foothill grasslands, coastal sage scrub, sand dunes, island chaparral, coastal oak and pine forests, and marshes.

The predominant types of vegetation are coastal sage scrub, island chaparral, and grassland (Knapp 2005).

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As developers carved the canyons into suburban lots, leaving behind islands of isolated brush, Soulé was alarmed enough to investigate that theory, and he sent students to compile data on the disappearance of birds from 37 forlorn chaparral islands.

Soulé, M.E., et al., «Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral - Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands.»

Reconstructed dynamics of rapid extinctions of chaparral - requiring birds in urban habitat islands.

Guadalupe shares the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion with the Channel Islands of California in the United States, but the island was at one time practically denuded of all plants higher than a few centimeters by up to 100,000 [note 1] feral goats.

The most common native plant communities of Catalina Island are chaparral, coastal sage scrub, island oak - ironwood woodland and grasIsland are chaparral, coastal sage scrub, island oak - ironwood woodland and grasisland oak - ironwood woodland and grassland.

Foxes are found in most of these habitats on these islands, but they prefer shrubby or wooded areas such as chaparral, coastal scrub and oak woodlands.

The major vegetative community types on the islands include coastal dune, coastal bluff, coastal sage scrub, grasslands, chaparral, island oak woodlands, mixed hardwood woodlands, pine stands, and riparian areas.

Habitat Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Its natural habitats are chaparral and woodlands, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, and temperate grassland on the Channel Islands of California.

The fox lives in all of the island biomes including temperate forest, temperate grassland and chaparral, with no island supporting more than 1,000 foxes.

On Santa Rosa Island, spotted skunks were found to be associated with rocky canyon slopes, cactus patches, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, open woodland, other scrub - grassland communities, and riparian habitat along streams.

Coastal strand, coastal bluffs, valley and foothill grasses, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, island and oak woodlands, pine forests, southern riparian woodlands, and marsh communities are all present.

The native plant communities of Santa Cruz Island include chaparral, oak woodland, Bishop pine (Pinus muriacata) forest, grassland and coastal sage scrub.

The Bishop pine community also includes many commonly associated understory species such as chamise, coyote brush, globe lantern, toyon, smooth mouse ears, island deerweed, island monkeyflower, chaparral current, poison oak, canyon sunflower, and the rare island barberry.

Santa Rosa Island has poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum), Chaparral zygadene (Zygadenus fremontii), and several species of nightshade (Solanum sp.) each of which has some toxic properties.

Currently, the most extensive vegetation communities on the islands are grassland and coastal sage scrub with significant areas of chaparral on Santa Cruz Island, and to a lesser degree, on Santa Rosa Island.