plant succession

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• plant succession — A series of vegetation types following one another in the same region • • • Main Entry: ↑succeed …   Useful english dictionary

• plant succession —   the sequence of plant species that inhabit an area from the pioneers that first arrive, through to the climax community …   Geography glossary

• succession — ► NOUN 1) a number of people or things following one after the other. 2) the action, process, or right of inheriting an office, title, etc. 3) Ecology the process by which a plant community successively gives way to another until stability is… …   English terms dictionary

• plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …   Universalium

• Ecological succession — Succession after disturbance: a boreal forest one (left) and two years (right) after a wildfire. Ecological succession, is the phenomenon or process by which a community progressively transforms itself until a stable community is formed. It is a… …   Wikipedia

• Plant defense against herbivory — Poison ivy produces urushiol to protect the plant from herbivores. In humans this chemical produces an allergic skin rash, known as urushiol induced contact dermatitis …   Wikipedia

• plant development — Introduction       a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… …   Universalium

• succession — noun 1》 a number of people or things following one after the other. 2》 the action, process, or right of inheriting an office, title, etc.     ↘Ecology the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a… …   English new terms dictionary

• succession —   the development of a plant community over time …   Geography glossary

• Cyclic succession — is a pattern of vegetation change in which in a small number of species tend to replace each other over time in the absence of large scale disturbance. Observations of cyclic replacement have provided evidence against traditional Clementsian… …   Wikipedia

• faunal succession, law of — Observation that taxonomic groups of animals follow each other in time in a predictable manner. Sequences of successive strata and their corresponding fauna have been matched to form a composite picture detailing the history of the Earth,… …   Universalium