The ecological succession of brush and woody vegetation into the clearings on which it depends also threatens the plant.
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Around the same time, the pioneering botanist Henry Chandler Cowles conducted early studies of ecological succession in Miller Woods.
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It grows in sunny locations and a variety of soils, and functions as a pioneer species in ecological succession.
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The planting design also considered ecological succession in its initial design, expecting the initial plant communities to change through time.
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Some ecologists suggest that the starfish has an important and active role in maintaining coral reef biodiversity, driving ecological succession.
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They are often the first plants to take hold in a mudflat and begin its ecological succession into a salt marsh.
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Ecological succession was first documented in the Indiana Dunes of Northwest Indiana which led to efforts to preserve the Indiana Dunes.
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Without these processes, the habitat becomes overgrown and large and woody vegetation types move in as ecological succession causes overall change.
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When islands emerge, they undergo the process of ecological succession as species colonize the island ( see theory of island biogeography ).
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The remaining ecological zones, with their progression from shoreline to climax forest, are a classic illustration of the concept of ecological succession.
