| hydrophytic vegetation | <botany> Plant life growing in water or on a substrate that is at least periodically deficient in oxygen as a result of excessive water content. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| vegetation | The plant growth forms that generally occupy a given area (for example, forest, hydrophytes or chaparral). The sum total of macrophytes that occupy a given area. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| vegetation unit | A patch, grouping or zone of plants evident in overall plant cover, which appears distinct from other such units because of the vegetation's structure and floristic composition, a given unit is typically topographically distinct and typically has a rather uniform soil, except possibly for relatively dry microsites (for example, tree bases, old tree stumps, mosquito ditch spoil piles and small earth hummocks) in an otherwise wet area or relatively wet microsites (for example small depressions) in an otherwise dry area. (09 Oct 1997) |
| shrub vegetation | A community of shrubs. (09 Oct 1997) |