Vegetation

Vegetation means the plant life of a region or the plant community. It means all ground cover by plants, and is the main element of the biosphere. When you say vegetation you do not think of any species composition, life forms, structure, spatial extent, "naturalness", or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. That is meant by flora which refers exclusively to species composition.

Vegetation can refer to a wide range of spatial scales. Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all are meant by the term vegetation.

 Other websites 
Classification
Terrestrial Vegetation of the United States Volume I – The National Vegetation Classification System: Development, Status, and Applications  (PDF)
Federal Geographic Data Committee Vegetation Subcommittee 
Vegetation Classification Standard  [FGDC-STD-005, June 1997] (PDF)

Mapping-related
USGS - NPS Vegetation Mapping Program 
Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps 
Free Vegetation Distribution Site – "free access to almost the entire Spot Vegetation ten daily synthesis archive"

 Climate Diagrams 
 Climate Diagrams Explained 
 WBCS Worldwide Climate Diagrams 

Category:Botany