EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Term: Native Vegetation. Proposed Definition: “An assemblage of plants in a specific place or region that has adapted to environmental and biological conditions. Native vegetation is typically dominated by native plant species but may include non-native plants or naturalized plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Organisms live within an ecological community, which is defined as an assemblage of populations of at least two different species that interact directly and indirectly within a defined geographic area (Agrawal et al.

Detailed explanation-3: -A community or biocoenosis is an assemblage of organisms (species populations) whose composition and aspect is determined by the properties of the environment and by the relations of the organisms to each other (modified from Braatne, 2005).

Detailed explanation-4: -A group of interacting plants and animals inhabiting a given area. Smith (1992) An assemblage of interacting plants and animals on a shared site.