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In scientific ecology, climax community or climatic climax community is a historic term for a community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state. This equilibrium was thought to occur because the climax community is ...
Connell and Slatyer chose to focus on autogenic succession, which occurs on newly exposed landforms and is initiated by changes from within the community rather than a geophysical transformation. [2] They targeted plant and immobile aquatic organisms that demanded the greatest surface area within an environment and could modify the physical ...
The nature of climax vegetation will change as the environment changes. The climax community represents a pattern of populations that corresponds to and changes with the pattern of environment. The central and most widespread community is the climatic climax.
White spruce (Picea glauca) is an example of a climax species in the northern forests of North America due to its ability to adapt to resource scarce, stable conditions, it dominates Northern forest ecosystem in the absence of a disturbance. [10] Other examples of climax species in old-growth forests: Canadian hemlock; Pacific silver fir; White fir
climax community A community of biological species that has reached a stable state, occurring when the different species are best adapted to average conditions in a given area. colony commensalism A symbiotic relationship between two organisms of different species, in which one of the organisms benefits while the other remains unaffected. community
Plant Competition. An Analysis of Community Functions (1929, with J.E. Weaver & H.C. Hanson. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington; The Genera of Fungi (1931, repr. 1965, with C. L. Shear) Nature and structure of the climax (1936). The Journal of Ecology, 24(1), 252–284. Together with his wife Edith Clements he edited three exsiccata ...
A seral community is an intermediate stage found in ecological succession in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community. In many cases more than one seral stage evolves until climax conditions are attained. [1] A prisere is a collection of seres making up the development of an area from non-vegetated surfaces to a climax community.
Xerosere is a plant succession that is limited by water availability. It includes the different stages in a xerarch succession.Xerarch succession of ecological communities originated in extremely dry situation such as sand deserts, sand dunes, salt deserts, rock deserts etc.