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 where there was no vegetation prior is called primary succession. We can observe primary succession on bulldozed sites, after an intense fire, or following a volcanic ...

Foresters have embraced the new science of forest ecology and forest succession stages to manage ... It can also start very rapidly where the existing community is completely destroyed by fire, ...

For example, if an oak-hickory forest had a severe forest fire which destroyed most of the trees, ... The ecology of secondary succession. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5, 25-37 (1974).

Moreover, contrary to popular myth, even large, intense forest fires move relatively slowly, unlike fires in grasslands and low-elevation chaparral (e.g., the Rim fire of 2013 moved at less than 1 ...

Primary succession is the process of ecological growth starting from completely barren or newly exposed land, after a ...

Forest succession and climate variability interacted to control fire activity over the last four centuries in an Alaskan boreal landscape. Landscape Ecology , 2019; DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-00766-8 ...

Her work emphasizes effects of changing climate and fire activity on forest resilience. Giorgio Vacchiano, Assistant Professor giorgio.vacchiano@ null unimi.it University of Milan, Italy +39 329 ...

Summer 2025, July 28th - Aug 11thForest and Fire Ecology covers the role of fire in fire-adapted western US forests at the scales of Skip to main content . Search. Enter the terms you wish ...

Primary succession is the process of ecological growth starting from completely barren or newly exposed land, after a volcanic eruption, for instance, when there is rock but no soil for plants to ...