While succession is most often thought about in terms of the plant community, shifts in the populations of other organisms also need to be considered. The process of succession can be seen in many ...

The study of succession was pioneered at the University of Chicago by Henry Chandler Cowles, who was also one of the founders of ecology as a discipline, as he studied the plants of the Indiana Dunes.

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) ...

Our findings suggest that the changes in community structure over time were gradual and that succession occurred in soils from both depths, but the changes observed in the surface and mineral ...

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 ...