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vegetation (s) (noun), vegetations (pl)
1. An aggregation of plants, or plant life, in a geographical area.
2. The plant life growing in a specified area.
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Toilets: Then and Now, Part 12: Sewage Treatment Plants with Vegetation
(using plants; such as, algae to clean up waste water)
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emergent vegetation (s), emergent vegetations (pl) (nouns)
1. In a rain forest, those isolated species which protrude above the major portion of the forest canopy.
2. Aquatic plants, as cattails and sedges, that protrude or extend above the surface of a pond.
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vegetation and ecosystem mapping (s) (noun), vegetation and ecosystem mappings
An art and a science concerned with the drawing of maps that locate different kinds of plant cover in a geographic area.
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vegetation management (s) (noun), vegetation managements (pl)
The art and practice of manipulating vegetation; such as, timber, forage, crops or wild life, in order to produce a desired part or aspect of that material in higher quantities or qualities.
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vegetation zone (s) (noun), vegetation zones (pl)
1. A large area of the earth's surface, often spanning continents, in which vegetation with similar characteristics can be found.
2. A plant community which forms regional pagtterns based on the area's geography, geology, and history.
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harvester ants and vegetation
There is general agreement among students of ant ecology that harvesters strongly alter the abundance and local distribution of flowering plants; especially, in deserts, grasslands, and other xeric (dry) habitats where the ants are most abundant.
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