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Succession: progressional change in the species composition of an ecosystem over time as the organisms alter the environment
Supratidal Zone: region above the mean high tide mark ...

 


succession The replacement of one community by another; the definition includes the possibility of retrograde succession. Plant succession is the replacement of one kind of a plant by another.

succession of different crops are planted on the same land
area, as opposed to growing the same crop time after time
(monoculture).

Planting a succession of different crops on the same land rea as opposed to planting the same crop time after time.
Cross Contamination ...

Allogenic Succession - Predictable changes in plant and animal communities in which changes are caused by events external to the community, for example, fire, drought, floods, etc.

primary succession The natural development of vegetation and soil on a site that had not previously borne vegetation (e.g., a sand dune or lava flow), which vegetation will be replaced by other, successive plant communities.

seral stage one of the transitional communities that becomes established during the process of ecological succession. See Succession, ecological.

Allogenic succession A temporal succession of species at a location that is driven by external influences which alter conditions.

A succession of plant communities is associated with the change in substrate and microenvironment. Thus, floating and submerged aquatic plants occupy the shallow waters near the shore, slowly accumulating wind-blown soil and decaying organic matter.

Revegetation can occur as natural plant colonization and succession; or it can be artificially accelerated to repair soil damage due to wildfire, mining, floods or other causes.

Stratigraphy: The study of original succession (stratigraphic sequence) and age of unconsolidated materials and rock strata, dealing with their form, distribution, lithologic composition, fossil content, ...

Crop Rotation: Planting a succession of different crops on the same land area as opposed to planting the same crop time after time.

crop rotation : A system of farming in which a regular succession of different crops are planted on the same land area, as opposed to growing the same crop time after time (monoculture).

Gilgai is found in soils that contain large amounts of clay, which swells and shrinks noticeably with wetting and drying. It usually occurs as a succession of microbasins and microknolls in nearly level areas or as microvalleys and microridges ...

clonic
Pertaining to alternate muscular contraction and relaxation in rapid succession.

The term may also refer to a distinct event of sharp identity and significance: a succession of exciting incidents.

A system of farming in which a regular succession of different crops are planted on the same land area, as opposed to growing the same crop time after time (monoculture).
cross connection.

See also: Water, Condition, Environment, Community, Organism