A plant species or community which will be replaced by another plant community if protected from disturbance.
The stage of succession of a plant or animal community that is transitional. If left alone, the seral stage will give way to another plant or animal community that represents a further stage of succession.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of an ecological sere (a series of ecological communities that follow one another in the course of the biotic development of an area or formation from pioneer stage to climax).
Pertaining to the successional stages of biotic communities.
(succession): A stage in the natural progression of colonization by plants from bare soil to climax vegetation. Even within climax vegetation tree fails and other events result in a progressive series of stages.
Refers to species or communities that are eventually replaced by other species or communities within a sere.
( Ecol.). Successional as contrasted with climax. ( BCFT.). See Succession.
An early stage in plant succession that follows natural or human-caused disturbance
Relating to a series of ecological communities that succeed one another in the biological development of an area.
Adjective term applied to any species or plant community primarily associated with secondary successional stages.
Of or relating to plant succession.
