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What is the basic difference between primary and secondary succession

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Primary is just dirt and rock secondary has basic things such as mosses and lichens
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Primary succession occurs when there are no remains of the previous ecosystem.
Secondary succession occurs when there are still remains of the ecosystem, so secondary succession kind of has a head start.
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