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Change happens all the time.
Some examples of change are: volcanoes, climate change, forest fire, flood, mudslides, glacier melting
What is change?
Due to interactions, all plants, animals and their environment are in the process of becoming something else.
Succession - is a series of changes in a land or aquatic community over time.
The community changes over time.
There are two types of succession.
I. Primary succession occurs where organisms have not grown before. It starts where there is no soil.
Examples: bare rock, new islands from
volcanoes, tar/cement, buildings, melting of a glacier
II. Secondary succession occurs when organisms grow after a major change. It starts when there is already soil.
Examples: forest fire, cut forest, flood damage, return of abandoned farmland to nature, heavily polluted streams, or where a natural community has been removed or destroyed.
Climax Community or Shade Tolerant Trees or Mature Oak-Hickory Forest
mixed hardwoods (deciduous), oaks, hickory, beech, sugar maple, ferns
Climax Community is the last and final stage of succession. This community stage is very stable and diverse thereby it is able to resist change. Diversity leads to the overall endurance and many complex interrelationships within the community
Succession as a lake turns into a bog and then into a forest. A floating mat of vegetation extends progressively out from the shore, eventually covering the open water. After thousands of years, the former lake will be covered with a forest
Which Pond is in the earliest stage of aquatic succession and how do you know?
Which Pond is the latest stage of successionand how do you know?