With the first day of frost in the area around Oct. 15, fitting in an early fall planting depends on the time to maturity of ...

Sunflower blooms cheer up your yard, but they usually only last a few weeks. Try this simple gardening tip to get continuous ...

Plant succession normally occurs when plant communities are left alone to develop and may take hundreds of years to go from an early stage, like an abandoned farm field, to a climax forest community.

The process of secondary succession happens in stages, with each stage playing a crucial role in restoring the land to a ...

Q. It’s time for fall planting and I need some help. What varieties or plants are edible and decorative do better in the cool ...

Cilantro is ready to harvest when it reaches 6 to 8 inches tall and has a few pairs of true leaves. This can be as early as four weeks after planting for some varieties. Don’t harvest cilantro that is ...

Secondary succession will occur in habitats following a disturbance, which leaves seeds, spores, or the subterranean portions of plants present (Figure 2).

The aim of this investigation was to follow the development of a soil microflora during the progress of succession, from the colonization of bare areas by flowering plants to a relatively complex ...

Specifically, at the end of the lesson, students will be able to: Diagram the changes in the imaginary plant community as a function of time, in the presence of environmental disturbances. Predict the ...

Christopher Uhl, Kathleen Clark, Howard Clark, Peter Murphy, Early Plant Succession after Cutting and Burning in the Upper Rio Negro Region of the Amazon Basin, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Jul ...