Concept of Succession

  • Ecological succession is the process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.
  • It is a phenomenon or process by which an ecological community undergoes more or less orderly and predictable changes following a disturbance or the initial colonization of a new habitat
  • The community begins with relatively few pioneering plants and animals and develops through increasing complexity until it becomes stable or self-perpetuating as a climax community.
  • The “engine” of succession, the cause of ecosystem change, is the impact of established species upon their own environments
  • The time scale can be decades (for example, after a wildfire), or ....
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