What is an example of ecological succession? Ecological succession can occur in many contexts and over many time spans. In Hawaii and Iceland, primary succession occurs on lava flows where new land ...

Researchers have characterized primary succession in this system, where plant communities progress from pioneer species (i.e., early colonizing lichens, liverworts, and forbs) to creeping shrubs ...

Plant strategies under succession were evaluated for communities on rising seashores of the northern Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden, representing sites of primary succession. The succession could not be ...

Abstract: While ecological dogma holds that rates of community change decrease over the course of succession, this idea has yet to be tested systematically across a wide variety of successional ...