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Though few people stop to think of it, much of the character of a place comes from its covering of plants. Southern France, with scented hard-leaved scrublands, has an entirely different feel about it from the tropical rainforest of Brazil, or the conifer forests of Canada. Vegetation is as important a part of the landscape as topography and the architecture of buildings, and yet it is an accepted and almost subconscious part of the order of things.
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Adams, J. (2010). The climate system. In: Vegetation—Climate Interaction. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00881-8_1
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