These brackish water habitats form a transition zone between river environments and ocean environments, and ecological successions can form along the way.
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The openings are in an early stage of ecological succession, a stage which is maintained by wildfire that periodically clears trees and shrubs.
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The ecological succession concept, pioneered in the 1900s and 1910s by Henry Chandler Cowles and Frederic Clements, was important in early plant ecology.
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"Artemisia norvegica " is a pioneer species in the primary phase of ecological succession in disturbed areas, such as plains scoured by flooding.
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Early ecological succession theory maintained that the directional shifts from one stage of succession to the next were induced by the plants themselves.
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The tree occurs on newly accreted soil in moderately to strongly saline areas and is considered as a pioneer species in ecological succession.
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Ragnar Hult was the first ( 1881 ) to publish a comprehensive study of ecological succession as it is taking place in a given region.
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Since the summit has been barren of soil cover, red spruce have been slowly ascending back towards the top in a process known as ecological succession.
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The AFR project has implemented restoration techniques and prescriptions that aim to replicate the process of ecological succession in dry, mixed-conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest.
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It is sometimes a pioneer species, colonizing land in the primary phase of ecological succession, such as roads and bare land turned over during frost heave.
