NATURAL VEGETATION IN INDIA
In studying the natural vegetation of India, it is necessary to know the distinction between flora, vegetation and forest. 'Flora' refers to plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a group. 'Vegetation' refers to assemblage of plant species living in association with each other in a given environmental frame-often termed as ecological frame. The word forest is generally used to denote a large tract covered by trees and shrubs.
The natural vegetation in India, almost always of the tropical variety in regions below 915 m in height, has seen a great biotic change through the centuries. Depletion of vegetation has been a result of destruction of forest lands owing to indiscriminate felling and forest fires. Overgrazing, too, has been an important cause. Soil conditions have undergone modifications to produce different vegetation types.
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