Researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that human activities ...

Glacier foreland ecology encompasses the study of newly exposed terrains resulting from glacier retreat and the ensuing processes of primary succession. As glaciers recede under the influence of ...

Primary succession is the process of ecological growth starting from completely barren or newly exposed land, after a volcanic eruption, for instance, when there is rock but no soil for plants to ...

And one of the prominent theories in ecology today — ecological succession — posits that life leads to other life, which shares some concepts with the Gaia hypothesis.

1. Successional change following disturbance is a fundamental ecological process that remains central to understanding patterns in plant ecology. Although succession has been studied for well over a ...

Changes in traits related to feeding ecology and dispersal potential over succession agreed with expectations from other ecosystems. We also tracked functional diversity metrics over time to see how ...