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Oppose - while this might be true in California, it isn't true generally. The two terms overlap a lot, but they aren't synonymous (for example, while 'plant community ecology' is a major subfield of ecology, 'vegetation type ecology' isn't a thing.
Guettarda (
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20:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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Vegetation type might more appropriately redirect to Plant community, with perhaps no more than a sentence mentioning the (near-)synonymy, or possibly a paragraph discussing the difference in usage if the term is a substantially well-defined subtopic of "plant community". In my opinion having variant articles on subtly different concepts hinders comprehensive knowledge (e.g. a reader led to the stub might not find information in the larger article), and may lead to a
content fork.
--Animalparty-- (
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05:53, 11 August 2014 (UTC)reply
You are right that the difference in usage needs to be put into Wiki. There appears to be a wide variation in usage, from the expressions being synonymous for some, to having different meanings altogether for others, to each expression being nearly meaningless for others. From my superficial reading in the past days, "plant community" seems more of an ecological concept, especially as to interactions among the plants, and vegetation type is more of a plant ID concept. Lets continue to develop each article, and revisit a possible merge one way or the other when there is more info as to whether a merge is or is not appropriate.
FloraWilde (
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14:25, 11 August 2014 (UTC)reply