While succession is most often thought about in terms of the plant community, shifts in the populations of other organisms also need to be considered. The process of succession can be seen in many ...

The study of succession was pioneered at the University of Chicago by Henry Chandler Cowles, who was also one of the founders of ecology as a discipline, as he studied the plants of the Indiana Dunes.

Just because we’ve already enjoyed a couple months of flowers by June doesn’t mean we should give up on the rest of the year ...

The film discusses plant succession, the process by which one type of plant life replaces another over time. It explains how environmental factors such as soil, sunlight, precipitation ...

It may be as long as two months before it's time to plant some fragile summer vegetable crops. But the seeds have been sown ...

Depending on the plants you’re growing, you can succession sow the same vegetable seeds repeatedly. Or you can switch things up by growing different vegetable cultivars, or different crops entirely.

An important and often misunderstood concept in ecology is succession. Succession refers to the series of changes observed in a plant community following a disturbance event (Connell and Slayter 1977) ...

In this lab, students play a board game designed to introduce the concepts of disturbance dynamics and succession in plant communities. Students explore the dynamics of an imaginary ecosystem through ...