Succession

What is succession?

What did Clement believe happened after a disturbance?

What did Gleason believed happened after a disturbance?

What is the relationship between diversity and number of disturbances?

What is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis?

Why does diversity decrease with low frequency/high-intensity disturbances?

Why does diversity decrease with high frequency/low-intensity disturbances?

What disproved the intermediate disturbance hypothesis?

What is primary succession?

What are the characteristics of early successional species?

What benefits do early successional species give to later successional species?

Why is fireweed always the first thing to colonize an area that was recently destroyed by a fire?

What is the relationship between dispersal and competitive ability?

What is the pattern that species follow during succession?

What is secondary succession?

What soil changes usually happen over time in secondary succession?