"Vegetation distribution" refers to the pattern or arrangement of different types of plants in a particular area. It describes how plants are distributed, or spread out, across the landscape. Full definition
Indeed, the long lifetime of fossil fuel carbon in the climate system and persistence of the ocean warming ensure that «slow» feedbacks, such as ice sheet disintegration, changes of the global vegetation distribution, melting of permafrost, and possible release of methane from methane hydrates on continental shelves, would also have time to come into play. (journals.plos.org)
Climate forcing in the LGM equilibrium state, relative to the Holocene, due to the slow feedback ice age surface properties, i.e., increased ice area, different vegetation distribution, and continental shelf exposure, was -3.5 ± 1 W / m2 (10). (realclimate.org)
Köhler, P., Joos, F., Gerber, S. & Knutti, R. Simulated changes in vegetation distribution, land carbon storage, and atmospheric CO2 in response to a collapse of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. (nature.com)