California montane chaparral and woodlands
California montane chaparral and woodlands
The California montane chaparral and woodlands ecoregion covers the higher mountains of southern and central California — the Transverse, Peninsular, and Coast Ranges, including the San Bernardino, San Gabriel, San Jacinto, Santa Monica, and Santa Lucia Mountains — with disjunct blocks in northern Baja California, Mexico. Its Mediterranean climate brings hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, with mid-summer monsoonal thunderstorms that often form over the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges. Vegetation forms an elevation mosaic: chamise, manzanita, and scrub oak chaparral and oak woodlands give way upslope to pine and mixed-conifer forest and, on the highest peaks, subalpine communities. The region is notable for harboring eight endemic conifer species, and its flagship animal is the white-eared pocket mouse.
RESOLVE 424
Nearctic
7,663 sq mi
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Tipo de paisaje
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Región vegetal
Nearctic
Huella de la región
7,663 sq mi
Presión sobre el hábitat
Nature Could Recover (Dinerstein NNH 3)
Origen y cuidado
Patrocinado
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Planifica para veranos calurosos y secos, inviernos suaves y húmedos, y plantas preparadas para los cambios estacionales. Este clima favorece arbustos adaptados a la sequía, bulbos, hierbas y plantas de bosque abierto; la orientación sobre nativas locales importa porque el fuego, la pérdida de hábitat y el endemismo son parte de la historia de plantación.
Range & origins
Marcador situado dentro del polígono RESOLVE 2017 en 34.5°N, 118.5°W.
La región a través del tiempo
Huella moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapea 7,663 sq mi
Este límite es una huella ecológica moderna para California montane chaparral and woodlands, no una línea permanente en el planeta. Resulta útil para el contexto actual de plantas y fauna porque sigue patrones recurrentes de vegetación, clima, relieve y perturbaciones.
Por qué aquí
Condiciones de mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub
La región se ubica en el reino Nearctic y se clasifica como mediterranean forests, woodlands & scrub. La altitud, la humedad, el fuego, los suelos, las costas y el uso humano del suelo pueden hacer que el paisaje real sea más variado de lo que sugiere un único color en el mapa.
Presión de cambio
Nature Could Recover
Plotwright muestra esto como la huella actual de RESOLVE. A lo largo de décadas o siglos, el calentamiento, las perturbaciones, las especies invasoras, el uso del suelo y la restauración pueden desplazar el borde vivo de una región aunque el mapa de referencia permanezca fijo.
Colecciones de plantación
Recetas de plantación terminadas donde cada miembro puede con el rango climático de esta región. La insignia de ajuste usa la planta más sensible de la colección, así que una colección resistente es un punto de partida más seguro que cualquier ejemplar destacado por sí solo.
Adecuada actualmente · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Adecuada actualmente · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Adecuada actualmente · 3 plantas
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Adecuada actualmente · 6 plantas
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
Adecuada actualmente · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Adecuada actualmente · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
Regiones de plantación similares
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RESOLVE 422 - Nearctic
California coastal sage and chaparral
California coastal sage and chaparral covers the cismontane lowlands and footslopes from Point Conception south through Baja California — the chaparral and coastal-sage-scrub matrix interleaved with oak woodland, riparian gallery forest, and the coastal salt-marsh fringe. The most species-rich Mediterranean-climate flora in North America; sage, ceanothus, manzanita, and the fire-following annual wildflowers carry the visible identity.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zonas 11a-12b
+2.8°F para 2070
12,700 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 4
RESOLVE 423 - Nearctic
California interior chaparral and woodlands
The California interior chaparral and woodlands ecoregion forms an elliptical ring of hills and low mountains around California's Central Valley, stretching from Shasta Lake south toward Wheeler Ridge. Its biologically rich mosaic includes chaparral, grasslands, oak savannas and woodlands, serpentine communities, pine and montane conifer forests, riparian forests, and wetlands. The climate is Mediterranean, with warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Notably, it hosts the largest number of endemic mammals of any ecoregion in the U.S. and Canada, with the Alameda whipsnake as its flagship species; urban sprawl and rural development are leading threats.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zonas 7b-12a
+3.1°F para 2070
27,780 sq mi
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 425 - Nearctic
Santa Lucia Montane Chaparral & Woodlands
The Santa Lucia Montane Chaparral & Woodlands ecoregion hugs the Pacific coast along California's Santa Lucia Mountains, part of the Southern Coast Ranges, running from the Monterey Peninsula south through rugged Big Sur to areas west of Templeton. Moist western slopes support forests of coast redwood, Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and Monterey pine, while drier interiors carry chaparral and oak woodlands. The climate is Mediterranean, with cool, often foggy summers near the coast giving way to hot interior summers. Notably, the region holds the southernmost native stands of coast redwood and the endemic Santa Lucia fir, the rarest and most narrowly distributed fir in North America.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zonas 10b-12a
+2.8°F para 2070
1,817 sq mi
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 785 - Palearctic
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
The Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests ring the Aegean Sea, spanning most of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands, the western coast of Turkey, and reaching into southeastern North Macedonia and southwestern Bulgaria. Its vegetation is classic Mediterranean: dense maquis shrubland of holm oak, strawberry tree, and bay laurel, extensive pine forests of Calabrian (Turkish) pine, Aleppo pine, and stone pine, with sweet chestnut and oriental beech on cooler northern slopes. The climate is Mediterranean, with mild winters and dry summers. The ecoregion's flagship is the oriental sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis), endemic to a limited area of southwestern Turkey and the Greek island of Rhodes, and much of the original habitat has been heavily degraded by human activity dating back to ancient times. For gardeners drawn to drought-tolerant Mediterranean planting, native genera such as Arbutus (strawberry tree), Laurus (bay laurel), and the pines offer ornamental, climate-suited choices.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zonas 9a-12b
+3.5°F para 2070
51,531 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
RESOLVE 88 - Afrotropic
Albany thickets
The Albany Thickets ecoregion lies in South Africa's Eastern Cape, concentrated in the wide valleys of the Great Fish, Sundays, and Gamtoos rivers around the Albany region. It forms a dense, spiny shrubland and woodland with a canopy up to about 2.5 metres tall, growing on well-drained sandy soils and rich in succulents such as the porkbush (Portulacaria afra), jade plant (Crassula ovata), aloes, and succulent Euphorbia, alongside trees like Schotia afra. The climate is dry, hot in summer and cold in winter, with inland valleys swinging from near 0 degrees C to over 40 degrees C and receiving low, irregular rainfall. The thickets form part of the Cape Floristic Region and are a noted center of endemism for succulent Euphorbia, while Addo Elephant National Park protects African bush elephants and black rhinoceros within the region. For gardeners, the spekboom (Portulacaria afra) and jade plant native here are both widely grown ornamental, drought-tolerant succulents.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zonas 10b-13b
+3.1°F para 2070
14,181 sq mi
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 786 - Palearctic
Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
The Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests cover the mountains and plateaus of southwestern Anatolia in Turkey, a transitional zone where Mediterranean conditions grade into increasingly continental climate moving from west to east. Its forests are a mosaic of pines and deciduous broadleaf trees: Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) holds the western foothills and inland depressions, while the emblematic Anatolian black pine (Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana) dominates the drier east and higher elevations, mixing with oaks (Quercus cerris, Q. pubescens, Q. robur, Q. frainetto), sweet chestnut, Oriental beech, and juniper. The climate is broadly Mediterranean, with hot dry summers and rainy winters and annual precipitation ranging roughly 400 to 600 mm. The region shelters brown bears, grey wolves, Saker falcons, and the critically endangered long-legged wood frog, and its wetlands are vital for migratory waterfowl such as Dalmatian pelicans and white-headed ducks; it is classified as critical or endangered, with only a small fraction of its area protected. For gardeners, several plants native here are familiar ornamentals, including the cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) and sweet chestnut.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
Zonas 9a-12a
+3.3°F para 2070
33,325 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
Subregiones de refinamiento nacional
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EPA Nivel III (solo EE. UU.) - 1 subregión
8 · Southern California Mountains
Fuente: USGS / EPA vía Omernik (1987).
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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
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