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 ...
The film discusses plant succession, the process by which one type of plant life replaces another over time. It explains how environmental factors such as soil, sunlight, precipitation, and ...
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 ...
The effect of established shrub willows (Salix commutata and S. phylicifolia) was tested in a primary successional ecosystem at Lyman Glacier forefront in the North Cascade Range (Washington, U.S.A.).
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 ...
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 ...
1 A large number of islands was created when the water table of Lake Hjalmaren, south central Sweden, was lowered between 1882 and 1886. We have complete lists of vascular plant species for 40 of ...