Plant ecology is the subdiscipline of ecology which studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the interactions among and between members of plant species, and their interactions with their environment. Plant ecology has its roots both in plant geography and in studies of the interactions between individual plants and their environment.
Broadly speaking, the scope of plant ecology encompasses plant ecophysiology, plant population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology and global ecology. At finer scales there are distinct differences between plant and animal ecology, but at broader scales like ecosystem ecology studies tend to integrate across subdisciplines.
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