Question

What is Primary Succession?

Describe pioneer species in your own words.
What is the meaning of Climax Community?
Define Secondary Succession?
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?

Answer 1

Primary succession is the beginning step of ecological succession after an extreme , which usually occurs in an environment devoid of vegetation.

In second at succession, an area that was previously occupied by living things is disturbed,then re colonized following the disturbance.

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.

1. Primary succession is the beginning step of ecological succession after an extreme , which usually occurs in an environment devoid of vegetation.

• for example: the formation of new ecosystem after a volcano, glacier outburst etc.

1. In second at succession, an area that was previously occupied by living things is disturbed,then re colonized following the disturbance.

• for example: succession after forest fire,flood etc.