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    Shrublands typically have hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters with poor soil and limited nutrients. They provide ecosystem services like air quality and carbon sequestration. Common animals include the greater roadrunner, mule deer, and endangered kangaroo rat. Plant life includes the flowering banksia, grass trees, and endangered golden barrel cactus. Shrublands are threatened by human development, wildfires, and poaching which reduce habitat for endangered species.

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    Shrublands typically have hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters with poor soil and limited nutrients. They provide ecosystem services like air quality and carbon sequestration. Common animals include the greater roadrunner, mule deer, and endangered kangaroo rat. Plant life includes the flowering banksia, grass trees, and endangered golden barrel cactus. Shrublands are threatened by human development, wildfires, and poaching which reduce habitat for endangered species.

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    Shrublands typically have hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters with poor soil and limited nutrients. They provide ecosystem services like air quality and carbon sequestration. Common animals include the greater roadrunner, mule deer, and endangered kangaroo rat. Plant life includes the flowering banksia, grass trees, and endangered golden barrel cactus. Shrublands are threatened by human development, wildfires, and poaching which reduce habitat for endangered species.

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    Biome Speed Dating- Shrublands

    Max Weinstock
    1. Abiotic Features
    Shrublands typically have dry hot summers and cool, moist winters. Shrubland
    areas have poor soil with limited nutrients.

    2. Location

    3. Ecosystem Services
    Two important ecosystem services that shrublands provide is good air quality as
    well as a habitable climate. Two economic benefits associated with this biome is
    high land costs and clean water that can be sold. Shrublands are connected to the
    atmospheric component of the carbon cycle through carbon sequestration. Carbon
    sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long-term storage
    of atmospheric carbon dioxide
    4. Animals
    Biome Speed Dating- Shrublands
    Max Weinstock

    One consumer of the shrublands is the Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx


    californianus), the bird has long legs which allows it to run down its prey.

    Another consumer of the shrubland is the Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus), they
    browse shrubs during the dusk and retreat to tree cover during day.

    The Kangaroo rat (Dipodomys) is an endangered species of the shrublands. The


    animal can change directions rapidly which helps it run form predators. The
    Kangaroo rat’s population is declining because its habitat is being seriously
    reduced.
    Biodiversity of shrublands is above average compared to other biomes.
    5. Plants
    Biome Speed Dating- Shrublands
    Max Weinstock

    One producer that thrives in the shrublands is the flowering Banksia


    (Banksia Aemula), which has seeds that are encased by a thick resin.

    A common plant in the shrublands is the grass tree (Xanthorrhoea), this plant
    releases a gas after a wildfire which promotes flower growth.

    The Golden Barrel Cactus (Echinocactus grusonii) is an endangered producer


    species part of the Shrublands. Its population is declining due to human
    development as well as poaching.

    Biodiversity in shrublands compared to other biomes is not as much due to the


    fact tall trees can’t grow in shrublands.
    6. Main Anthropogenic Threats
    Shrublands are one of the most biodiverse biomes as well as the most threatened.
    Shrublands are threatened by people living in and around them as well as
    wildfires which are common in the area. To protect these lands in California there
    is a conservation program which helps protect the animals, and plants by restoring
    Biome Speed Dating- Shrublands
    Max Weinstock
    their habitats with research and education. Wildfires in the shrublands can’t be
    stopped due to how naturally dry these areas are.

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