Just because we’ve already enjoyed a couple months of flowers by June doesn’t mean we should give up on the rest of the year ...

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 ...

What do volcanoes, glaciers, sand dunes, storms, agriculture, and fire have in common? They all initiate the process of succession in communities. Aa Aa Aa Succession refers to a directional ...

Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”—like a mature ...

An important and often misunderstood concept in ecology is succession. Succession refers to the series of changes observed in a plant community following a disturbance event (Connell and Slayter 1977) ...

It may be as long as two months before it's time to plant some fragile summer vegetable crops. But the seeds have been sown ...

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 ...