Santa Barbara, California is located in a chaparral ... Warming temperatures are stressing the chaparral biome, leading to several environmental changes. In some areas, chaparral vegetation ...

(Susan Valot/KQED) Chaparral is known to be a biodiversity hot spot within a very biodiverse California. Many animals, insects and birds rely on the chaparral to survive. And the chaparral has another ...

found below the chaparral biome. Chaparral covers 5 percent of the state of California, and associated Mediterranean shrubland an additional 3.5 percent. The name comes from the Spanish word for ...