This plant succession scenario is very common in upland sites in the Mid-Atlantic part of the U.S. As you might think, the types of plant communities and resulting climax plant community are quite ...

There is an ecological term called “succession” that describes the changes a community of plants goes through over time. In most cases, plant communities change from a short-lived, transitory grouping ...

1. Plant–soil interactions are temporally dynamic in ways that are important for the development of plant communities. Yet, during primary succession, the degree to which changing soil characteristics ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. A climax community is a relatively stable and undisturbed biological ...

In this lab, students play a board game designed to introduce the concepts of disturbance dynamics and succession in plant communities. Students explore the dynamics of an imaginary ecosystem through ...

Through evaluation we have discovered that some students develop the misconception that plant community changes are unpredictable due to the randomness of the environment. It is important to explain ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Little is known of how changes in plant function may influence adaptive traits amongst animals further up the food chain. We addressed the ...

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