It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate ( mild, wet winters and hot dry summers ) and wildfire, featuring summer drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought deciduous, scrub community of Coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome.

Native plant communities include: coastal sage scrub, California Annual Grassland, and Coastal Dune Scrub species ; however, most native plants have been eliminated from within the city limits to make way for agriculture and urban and industrial development.

These plants are profusely distributed throughout the Rocky Mountains from British Columbia south through Colorado, the Cascades of Oregon and California, and the Coastal Ranges of California.

Construction was completed on the National Garden on the Botanic Garden's west border, in October 2006 and the garden includes a regional garden of plants native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Piedmont, a rose garden, a butterfly garden, and the First Ladies Water Garden, a water garden in memory of the First Ladies of the United States. The National Garden construction was funded by the National Fund for the U. S. Botanic Garden which now exists as a ' friends group '.

Miles of waterfront and woodland trails ; impressive stonework in the Maine tradition ; and its setting in a natural landscape of forest, ledge, and native plants distinguish Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens from other gardens.

The arboretum features plants indigenous to Arkansas's West Gulf Coastal Plain region, plus flowering azaleas and camellias.

Of these, about 80 flowering plants are considered endangered and are not commonly found on the Swan Coastal Plain on which Perth is located, and the plant communities located here are in fact the last substantial wetland plant communities on the plain's claypans.

Coastal cities such as La Ceiba, Tela, and Trujillo and towns further inland such as El Progreso and La Lima became virtual company towns.

Mirza Ghazi Beg, the Mughal administrator of Sindh, is among the first historical figures credited for the development of Coastal Sindh ( consisting of regions such as the Makran Coast and the Mehran Delta ), including the cities of Thatta, Bhambore and Karachi.

Coastal cultures such as the Moche and Nazca flourished from about 100 BC to about AD 700: the Moche produced impressive metalwork, as well as some of the finest pottery seen in the ancient world, while the Nazca are known for their textiles and the enigmatic Nazca lines.

The Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, located in Changhua County, is a newer industrial cluster with many different industries such as food production, glass, textiles, and plastics.

There are also several charter firms and smaller airlines, such as Bold Aviation Ltd., Tropical Air and Coastal Aviation Ltd.

These powerful engines could make use of planing hull designs, such as in the British Coastal Motor Boat, capable of much higher speed under appropriate sea conditions than displacement hulls.

Many coastal aquifers, such as the Biscayne Aquifer near Miami and the New Jersey Coastal Plain aquifer, have problems with saltwater intrusion as a result of overpumping.

Coastal fish ( such as the smooth toadfish ) and seabirds ( such as the Atlantic Puffin ) are often monitored for the presence of such contaminants.

Coastal flooding has been addressed in Europe and the Americas with coastal defences, such as sea walls, beach nourishment, and barrier islands.

There are six such divisions ( Aerospace ; Air Transportation ; Highway ; Pipeline ; Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean ; and Urban Transportation ) representing one-third of the total 18 technical divisions within the ASCE ( 1987 ).

Coastal fish ( such as the smooth toadfish ) and seabirds ( such as the Atlantic Puffin ) are often monitored for heavy metal bioaccumulation.

* Coastal and hydraulic engineering, producing products such as HEC-RAS

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

The park is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

The park is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

Coastal populations in Borneo are largely Muslim in belief, however these groups ( Tidung, Bulungan, Paser, Melanau, Kadayan, Bakumpai, Bisayah ) are generally considered to be Islamized Dayaks, native to Borneo, and heavily influenced by the Javanese Majapahit Kingdoms and Islamic Malay Sultanates.

It is a dicot shrub or sub-shrub in the Hydrangeaceae family, native to the Pacific Coastal region of the United States.

North Coastal Standard Bikol ( Ethnologue name: Coastal Bikol ) or simply, Northern Bikol, is spoken by over 2. 4 million people ( figure dates back from the 1990 Census ) with native speakers in various areas in all the provinces of the Bicol Region: Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay, Catanduanes, Sorsogon, and Masbate.

In its native habitat, Pinus torreyana is found in the Coastal sage scrub plant community, growing slowly in dry sandy soil.

Rhododendron atlanticum ( Greek Ροδόδενδρο ) ( Dwarf azalea or Coastal azalea ), is a species of Rhododendron native to coastal areas of the eastern United States, from New Jersey south to Georgia.

The native Puget Sound White River spring Chinook salmon ( and Puyallup River fall Chinook that inhabit the River ), Puget Sound winter Steelhead, and Puget Sound / Coastal Bull trout are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Magnolia fraseri ( Fraser magnolia, mountain magnolia, earleaf cucumbertree, or mountain-oread ), is a species of Magnolia native to the southeastern United States in the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain from West Virginia south to northern Florida and west to eastern Texas.

* Coastal cutthroat trout O. c. clarki, also known as " sea-run " cutthroat ; native from northern California to Alaska.

The aviary exhibits five native Florida ecosystems ; Coastal prairie, mangrove swamp, cypress forest, sub-tropical hardwood hammock, and sawgrass prairie.

Shumard Oak is native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain primarily from North Carolina to northern Florida and west to central Texas ; it is also found north in the Mississippi River Valley to central Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana, western and southern Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Acer circinatum ( Vine Maple ) is a species of maple native to western North America, from southwest British Columbia to northern California, usually within 300 km of the Pacific Ocean coast, found along the Columbia Gorge and Coastal Forest.

For the most part, the suburb is covered in native banksia woodland, scrubland and heath typical of the Swan Coastal Plain.

For the most part, the suburb is covered in native banksia woodland, scrubland and heath typical of the Swan Coastal Plain.

Coastal regions can experience more than 180 days of thick fog a year.

Coastal regions can experience more than 180 days of thick fog a year.