Biopedia

39- Succession and Climax Communities

Jul 4, 2021 · 5 min · Season 2 · Episode 29 · 5.1 MB
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Our discussion this week is going to head back into ecology and focus on succession- a change in the species composition of a community across space or time.


Sources for this episode:

  • Cain, M. L., Bowman, W. D. and Hacker, S. D. (2011), Ecology (Second Edition). Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinauer Associated Ltd.
  • Thain, M. and Hickman, M. (2014), Dictionary of Biology (Eleventh Edition). London: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • Thompson, J. N., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2018), Ecological succession (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021].
  • Author unknown, Encyclopaedia.com (updated 2018), Plagioclimax (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021].