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Someone, at some point, had mangled the first sentence, completely changing it's meaning from the original. Also, the "importance" paragraph had been merged into the intro P, making it unnecessarily long and diffuse. Don't know how long ago this happened, as I have not checked the article much lately. I have reverted both of these to their approximate original conditions.
Jeeb (talk) 14:51, 22 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of a region; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader than the term flora which refers exclusively to species composition. Perhaps the closest synonym is plant community, but vegetation can, and often does, refer to a wider range of spatial scales than that term does, including scales as large as the global. Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all are encompassed by the term vegetation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.1.237.58 (talk) 11:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
This is a very interesting article. I would like to look deeper into this topic such as covering the trends in vegetation change and how we can use vegetation as a tool in landscape planning and design. Skyplanner (talk) 07:22, 9 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
In the interest of consolidation of knowledge, I think it would be prudent to merge stubs that are synonymous (or nearly so) rather than foster a plethora of colloquial or semantically varying stubs. It would be more instructional to discuss differences in a single article rather than refer to one or more additional articles to get the same information. --Animalparty-- (talk) 02:40, 30 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Fauna 157.50.39.28 (talk) 07:02, 24 December 2021 (UTC)Reply