Talk:Shrubland

Merge

Is there an distinction in ecology between shrubland and scrubland? I cannot find such a distinction in a quick literature review: I'm not an expert, however.

If there is no distinction, I would suggest merging these two articles: both articles contain useful information that does not overlap.

Comments? —hike395 (talk) 07:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose there must be a difference between a shrub and a scrub. I use to translate into Esperanto : shrub in "arbedo" and scrub in "arbusto". In my opinion a shrub is quite a woody plant, but it has many stems from the ground. A scrub is similar but only partly or feebly woody, and generally smaller. Perhaps I am not right : english isn't my native tongue. --Forstbirdo (talk) 19:37, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]