[6.2] Succession

[6.2] Succession

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Ecological _________- series of somewhat predictable events that occur in a community over time

Multiple Choice

Species diversity typically increases over the course of succession

• True

• False

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__________ succession- succession that begins on newly formed rock or other areas that have no remnants of an older community

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___________ _____________- first species to colonize barren areas; have broad ranges of tolerance for environmental factors

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____________ succession- when a disturbance affects an existing community but doesn’t completely destroy it and then succession occurs

Multiple Choice

Recent studies have shown that succession always follow the same path, and that climax communities are often uniform and stable

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When natural disturbances happen in healthy ecosystems, events and processes that occur during secondary succession often, but not always, reproduce the original climax community

• True

• False