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Ecological Sucession
Ecological Sucession
1. Primary Succession
2. Secondary Succession
There are two main types of Ecological
Succession
• Any particular region has its own set of climax species, which
are the plants that are best adapted for the area and will
persist after succession has finished, until another
disturbance clears the area.
These are Climax Communities
Mechanism of succession
1. Nudation: development of a bare area due to
natural calamities, overgrazing, deforestation
etc.
2. Migration: The seeds, spores and propagules
reach the bare area- by the action of wind,
water, animals and man
3. Ecesis (establishment):is the adjustment with
the existing conditions. The seeds germinate,
seedlings grow and adults reproduce.
4. Aggregation: increase in the no. of colonising
individuals.
5. Invasion: pioneers of new species continue to
reach the area under colonisation
6. Competition and co-action: no. of species is
more at the limited space, there develops
competition for space and nutrition.
7. Reaction: it is the change brought by colonizers.
The whole sequence of communities that
replaces one another in the given area is –sere
& the communities are called as seral
communities
8. stabilization(climax): After a long interval,
some individuals adapt to the existing
conditions and become dominant ones and
no further change occur in the vegetation-
climax community