HW 4: Habitat Trips

For this exercise, I visited a coastal shrub ecosystem on the San Francisco coast and a chaparral ecosystem in the Berkeley hills.

The coastal shrub plants are characterized by being low-growing and having drought-deciduous leaves. They are adapted to a semi-arid climate.

The chaparral plants are characterized by being drought-tolerant and having hard evergreen leaves.

Both ecosystems are pretty dry, so the plants tend to be low-growing and have small leaves to conserve water.

Posted on Μάιος 09, 2014 1251 ΠΜ by natalieunguyen