Ecological Succession

In this lesson we will investigate the process of secondary succession. Where does it happen? Why does it happen? How does it happen? What does it look like? Secondary Succession…What is it? Have you ever seen the movie Bambi? Remember the scene when the fire rages through the forest and all the animals…

Forest fires cause secondary successions in affected ecosystems. Ecological succession is the change that an ecosystem experiences over time. It is a natural process that occurs gradually as plants grow in an area, animals move in and the environment changes. Factors that can influence the stages of…

The distribution of phytoplankton abundance, biomass and species composition coupled with environmental factors and metazooplankton was studied relatively intensively and over a period of four consecutive years in five ponds featuring a gradient of increasing salinity from near to that of sea water to…

Ecological succession is the changing sequence of communities that live in an ecosystem during a given time period. 2. What are pioneer species? What is the role of pioneer species? Pioneer species are the first species that colonize places where there were previously no other living organisms, such…