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  2. Vegetation classification - Wikipedia

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    Class 7. Psammophytes (of formations on sand and gravel). Class 8. Chersophytes (of formations on waste land). D. The climate is very dry and decides the character of the vegetation; the properties of the soil are dominated by climate; the formations are also xerophilous: Class 9. Eremophytes (of formations on desert and steppe). Class 10.

  3. Tropical evergreen forests of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian Forest cover map as of 2015. Tropical evergreen forests of India are found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, [a] the Western Ghats, [b] which fringe the Arabian Sea, the coastline of peninsular India, and the greater Assam region in the north-east. [c] Small remnants of semi-evergreen forest are found in Odisha state.

  4. Vegetation - Wikipedia

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    An example of a vegetation type defined at the level of class might be "Forest, canopy cover > 60%"; at the level of a formation as "Winter-rain, broad-leaved, evergreen, sclerophyllous, closed-canopy forest"; at the level of alliance as "Arbutus menziesii forest"; and at the level of association as "Arbutus menziesii-Lithocarpus dense flora ...

  5. List of national vegetation classification systems - Wikipedia

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    This is a List of national vegetation classification systems.These systems classify natural habitat type according to vegetation.. Many schemes of vegetation classification are in use by the land, resource and environmental management agencies of different national and state jurisdictions.

  6. Forestry in India - Wikipedia

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    India is a large and diverse country. Its land area includes regions with some of the world's highest rainfall to very dry deserts, coast line to alpine regions, river deltas to tropical islands. The variety and distribution of forest vegetation is large: there are 600 species of hardwoods, including sal (Shorea robusta). India is one of the 17 ...

  7. Northern Basin and Range ecoregion - Wikipedia

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    Light-colored soils with high salt and alkali content are common; they are dry for extended periods and may be leached of salt by irrigation water. Potential natural vegetation is mostly saltbush-greasewood, featuring Nuttall sagebrush, squirreltail, shadscale, winterfat, and greasewood. Basin sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, bluebunch ...

  8. Land cover maps - Wikipedia

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    Vegetation indices classification is a system in which two or more spectral bands are combined through defined statistical algorithms to reflect the spatial properties of a vegetation cover. Most of these indices make use of the relationship between red and near-infrared (NIR) bands of satellite images to generate vegetation properties. Several ...

  9. Biogeographic classification of India - Wikipedia

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    Mangrove vegetation is characteristic of estuarine tracts along the coast for instance, at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. Larger parts of the coastal plains are covered by fertile soils on which different crops are grown. Rice is the main crop of these areas. Coconut trees grow all along the coast. Coconut and rubber are the main vegetation of ...