Canopy Layers

Vegetated areas are composed of a top canopy layer.

However, they also have a vertical structure and different understory vegetated layers/strata can be encountered.

The understory is composed of a shrub layer, a field layer (ferns, herbaceous and graminoids) and a ground layer (mosses and lichens). However, vertical structure of vegetation differs from an area to another and all the previously mentioned layers do not necessarily exist in all vegetated areas.

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