BIOLOGY 1B Lecture 17: Lecture-17-7_25_18
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Places that have mediterranean climates greece, italy, southern france, California chaparral woodland/shrubland woody, scrubby not too many trees, south africa call the ecosystem fynbos . Mediterranean climate is when you have cool, wet winter, and warm, dry summer. Climate is average, over a long time, of a series of weather conditions. Confusion between whether and climate whether is only at a certain time and place. Chaparral and fog forest in east bay. Walter-climate diagram temperature on left axis and precipitation on right axis, with months on x-axis. In western australia precipitation is at lowest in january their winter is july-ish it is wet and cool in their winter . When water dips below temperature, plants don"t add much biomass and don"t grow. In bay area, you have fog in winter, so it"s a mediterranean climate with fog and that changes everything because it"s not a classic mediterranean climate. Fog system can be understood with relation to the ocean currents.
