Plant communities play a critical role in modulating earth surface process from aeolian dune stabilisation to deflecting near-bank flows, reducing experienced shear stresses in fluvial environments. These vegetation effects and feedbacks are generally included into our models, like Landscape Evolution Models (LEMS), of how earth surface process operated and create topography. However, despite the development of robust linkages made between vegetation and surface process, e.g. ecosystem engineer concept, often diverse laterally heterogeneous plant communities are treated as homogenous units of discrete traits. In this project, we are adapting the open-sourced LEM CAESAR-Lisflood to spatially distribute vegetation across the landscape enabling complex diverse spatial plant communities to be simulated. By doing this we can start to answer a range of questions regarding vegetation-surface process feedbacks and apply these insights into restoration.