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PREFERRED TERM
chaparral
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DEFINITION
Crecimiento bajo y denso de vegetación de arbustos o de árboles enanos en regiones áridas o semiáridas del suroeste de de los Estados Unidos. Las zonas montañosas del litoral de California se caracterizan por Atriplex canescens (costilla de vaca o chamizo), especies Ceanothus y Arctostaphylos (manzanita). En otros lugares, a arbustos densos de la especie Prosopis (mesquita) y matorrales de roble se les puede denominar chaparral.
Low, dense growth of shrubby vegetation or stunted and dwarf trees in arid and semi-arid regions of the southwestern U.S. The coast range foothills of California are characterized by Atriplex canescens (four-wing saltbush), Ceanothus spp., and Arctostaphylos spp. (manzanita). In other places, dense thickets of Prosopis spp. (mesquite) and thickets of oaks may be called chaparral.
BROADER CONCEPT
scrub
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levels of ecological organization
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