Primary succession typically occurs very slowly when site conditions are unfriendly to most plants but where a few unique plant species can catch, hold, and thrive. Trees are not often present ...

Ecological succession is the progressive change, in an ecosystem, of species composition over time. With the change in species composition comes a series of modifications in community structure ...

In the burned miombo of northern Zambia, succession was followed on plots cleared and burned during the practice of shifting cultivation. Twelve formerly cultivated gardens were surveyed in various ...

A species-rich small-mammal community on 7 ha of diverse coastal heath in Myall Lakes National Park, New South Wales, Australia, was studied for 7 mo before the area burned in a wildfire (August 1974) ...

In tropical moist forests, nitrogen-fixing tree species can supply a large proportion of the nitrogen required for net forest growth in the first 12 years of recovery after human or natural ...