These disturbances knock back the community into an earlier successional stage, restarting the process of ecological succession. There is also considerable value in early successional habitat.

They all initiate the process of succession in communities ... The recent ecological history of Glacier Bay, Alaska: the present vegetation cycle. Ecology 4, 223-246 (1923).

Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”—like a mature ...

Ecological succession included a ‘mobile scavenger stage’, a possible ‘enrichment-opportunist stage’, a ‘microbial mat and grazer stage’ and a prolonged ‘reef stage’, with the ...

Ecological succession refers to the process through which an ecological system evolves over time. Ecological systems typically go through a series of predictable stages as they change and evolve.

Generations of students have learned that "ecological succession" originated with plant ... "seres" in plant ecology and "squads" and decay stages in carrion ecology) and the roles of site and ...

Ecological succession is the term used by scientists to describe the process by which a biological community evolves over time. Primary succession is the process of ecological growth starting from ...

There are four principle stages of ecological succession in the Maltese Islands. These are: steppe (Maltese: Steppa); garrigue (Maltese: Xagħri); maquis (Maltese: Makkja) and woodland (Maltese ...

With reference to ecological ... primary succession. Secondary succession is relatively fast as, the soil has necessary nutrients as well as large pool of seeds and dormant stages of organisms.