succession
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- noun
- /səkˈsɛʃən/
- Specialized
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sucesión ecológica
- Zimba and his collaborators also outlined a basic succession pattern of zooplankton and phytoplankton that grow in catfish production ponds.
- ecological succession
- forest succession
- natural succession
Examples
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Annual carbon storage varies through ecological succession by rising to a maximum and then slowly declining in old-growth stands.
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Species dominance is likely to shift as succession proceeds, and new community types may be introduced within the landscape.
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The scientists allowed natural succession to produce the final mix of plants.
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With either response, succession was also influenced by landscape patterns of light and moisture availability.
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Future forest carbon storage will also depend on ecological changes that result from ongoing forest disturbance and succession.
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Pasturelands go through a stage of plant succession: they turn into scrub and lose their grazing quality.
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But the large grazing herbivores can arrest the succession and keep the prairie in grass.
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In fact, fire is central to longleaf-pine habitat, facilitating faunal and floral succession and clearing out less biodiversity-supportive hardwoods.
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The gradual change from grassland to a dense forest is an example of ecological succession.
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In a healthy ecosystem, each phase of succession supports different species until a stable community is formed.
Synonyms
A gradual change in an ecosystem where one group of plants and animals replaces another until a stable community forms
Compounds
- Formal
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The order of people who have the right to become the next ruler, for example a king or queen
- Specialized
A gradual change in an ecosystem where one group of plants and animals replaces another until a stable community forms
A major European war from 1701 to 1714 fought over who should become king of Spain, involving many European countries
How Mature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Succession in ecology comes from the Latin succedere, meaning 'to follow', and is the same root as succeed. Think of plants and animals 'following' one another over time, which is why ecological succession is the slow change from one community to another.