An official website of the United States government.
vegetation types
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Definition
- A plant community with distinguishable characteristics.
- Definition Source
- Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/7025.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/7025
- Used For
- vegetation characteristics
- Broader Term
- vegetation
- Narrower Term
- alpine tundra
- alpine vegetation
- cerrado
- chaparral
- forests
- fynbos
- grasslands
- groves
- heathlands
- pine barrens
- pinyon-juniper
- riparian vegetation
- savannas
- shrublands
- taiga
- treeline
- tundra
- woodlands
- Related Term
- land resources
- normalized difference vegetation index
- plant communities
- vegetation index
- vegetation structure
- Spanish
- tipos de vegetación
- Term Number
- 7025