### social community:

Plant community
* Many plant communities benefit from the seasonal presence of pilgrim pollinators.
* Most plant communities adapt to regions
  - contain individuals
* Most plant communities occur in disturb habitats
  - offer shelter
* Plant communities are associations of vegetation that reoccur across the landscape
  - basic to that environment
  - fragile in the highcountry
  - natural integrators of the landscape
  - solar power stations that produce food energy for everything else
  - the basis for virtually all terrestrial animal life
  - varied and complex
  - change across the landscape in response to resource availability
  - flourish or perish depending on their environmental conditions
* Plant communities occur in distinct zones
* Plant communities provide a habitat for animals and significantly modify the local environment
* Plant communities range from dry upland prairie to wet prairie and wet woodland
  - fes cue grassland to alpine tundra
  - shift in close, intricate patterns reflecting the maze of drainage and soils
* Some plant communities ignite and carry fire more readily than others.
* Some plant communities play roles
  - vital roles
* Some plant communities reduce erosion

### social community:

Religious community
* Many religious communities have an ethnic aspect to their congregation's makeup.
* Many religious communities make vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience
  - poverty, chastity and obedience
  - reach out to both adults and children
* Most religious communities have one or more members assigned to vocations.
* Religious Communities Apply to religious order for admittance.
* Religious communities are juridical persons
  - can have all of the same foibles as can individuals
* Religious communities have a calling to care, support and prevent stigmatisation and suffering
  - prophetic role to play in taking on critical issues of our times
  - great potential to enhance civic life
  - legal authority in matters such as marriage and divorce
  - unique sets of beliefs, rituals, and experiences
  - live alongside each other in harmony
* Religious communities play a negative role in the educating and raising of children
  - primary role in transmitting and communicating religious inspiration
  - tend to be conservative about changes in their canons

### social community:

Rural community
* Many rural communities are reliant on tourism to sustain their economies
  - strong and growing and are proud of their quality of life
  - depend on resource industries for their livelihood
  - have evidence of pesticide drifting over their crops or homes
* Most rural communities have public water supplies
  - rely on natural resources for their livelihoods
* Rural communities are a key element for economic and social development
  - complex and have a diversity of interests
  - less and less populated by residents depending solely on agriculture
  - older, poorer, and have less access to health care
  - the base and source of the food and fiber products that are used today
  - depend on the land for subsistence
  - flourish when their residents recognize community needs and respond
  - have a different relationship to water than do urban dwellers
* Rural communities have the greatest number of entering physicians
  - nation's fastest growing rate of cocaine and heroin use
  - live in the shadow of big city wealth
  - see prisons as a means of enlarging their tax base
  - share the same health problems as do urban ones
* Rural communities tend to be small scale and close knit
  - have larger proportions of elderly

Scientific community
* Scientific communities undertake tasks.
* Some scientific communities make discoveries
  - new discoveries