The Chaparral Biome

The Chaparral biome is a natural occurrence of a community of plants and animals, often mistaken as a desert, and is rarely found globally. This biome has a mountainous and plain-like terrain with a hot and dry climate. The plants and animals are well adapted to this environment. Though, similar to other biomes, the Chaparral can be impacted by humans and environmental factors. In addition, the altering of organisms’ energy sources can negatively impact the biome’s ecosystem. It is important to have a biome where humans, plants, and animals can coexist utopically. The Chaparral biome is considered appealing to humans, hence it is a tourist attraction. To accommodate the tourist’s needs, humans are developing buildings and factories that are …show more content…
The chaparral biome is affected by the numerous ways of pollution. For instance, the carbon dioxide emissions from air pollution traps excessive heat from the sun, ultimately increasing global temperatures. The Chaparral biome is already hot and dry, and adding more heat to the environment will cause superfluous fires and adapted species to die. Another example is tourist polluting lands. Animals can consume these pollutants, become sick, and die. Evidently, there are barely any ways the Chaparral biome can benefit from human interactions, besides conservation efforts. An environmental factor that has a significant impact on the Chaparral biome is land erosion. The mountainous terrain of the biome erodes and creates a runoff that obstructs the few waterways the biome has. A major lack of water to the lands will cause wildfires to flourish. A certain extent of wildfires could be beneficial to organisms, but too much could be …show more content…
This heavy predation would eliminate the remaining secondary consumers in the food web. Primary consumers no longer have any immediate predation, so they can now reproduce and increase their populations greatly. The primary consumers will compete and begin to die off while the primary producers are depleted and the predation from the tertiary organisms increases. The food web’s chain of energy has been severely interrupted. There are no longer any primary consumers to receive energy from primary producers, secondary consumers are eradicated, and the population of tertiary consumers will decline over time due to the lack of energy sources.
The Chaparral biome is a community of plants and animals, that closely resembles a desert, and is rarely found globally. This biome has a mountainous and plain-like terrain with a hot and dry climate that are suitable for its plants and animals that adapted well. Though, similar to other biomes, the Chaparral can be impacted by humans and environmental factors that can be mainly disastrous. In addition, the altering of organisms’ energy sources can severely impact the biome’s