A Chaparrel is vegetation consisting mainly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes. It is mostly in California. It is also in the Baja peninsula area.
Chaparrel receives a bit more rain than a true desert and has a greater variety of vegetation.
They are well-known to adapt to whatever food source happens to be available. Check out the listed related link(s) below for more info:
The savanna biome is maintained by fire. Fire is essential for preventing the encroachment of trees and promoting the growth of grasses in the savanna ecosystem.
New Mexico's state bird is the roadrunner(Chaparrel) ; see relevant link .
They have hot summers and cold winters or at least that's what I think. ~For precipitation the biome gets 15-40 inches of rain, and for the climate, I can't really find the specific temperatures but I can say that the weather is that it can get cold during the winter but it gets at a moderate temperature for the summer so that the plant life in the biome can survive and the cycle can continue.