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Succession...

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What is Succession?

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Succession

An orderly change in communities of organisms that occurs over time

Primary Succession- begins with bare rock after geologic activity (ex: volcano)

Secondary Succession- begins on soil from which previous community has been removed (fire, agriculture...)

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Primary Succession

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Secondary Succession

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Think about here...An area of the

field outside is left to grow, how would it change over time?

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Field Succession

Grass Shrubs Trees Forest

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Primary or Secondary?

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Primary or Secondary?

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Primary or Secondary?

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Primary or Secondary?

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Pioneer Species- the first to arrive

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Climax Community- the final goal

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How Does an Ecosystem “Start Over”?

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Clear Cutting- People can speed up succession after by planting trees

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Lava Flow- New rock over top.

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Fire- cleans out an area

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Forest Fires (and Wildfires)

Video

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Palmetto vs Scrub Oak

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Some Disturbance is Devastating

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How about a water system?

Take the picture and try and place them in order from beginning of succession to climax community in order.

Good Luck!

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Pioneer Stage• Bare muddy or

sandy bottom

• Algae is primary producer

•Caddisfly Larva and fish that nest or burrow in bottom

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Submergent Plant Stage

•Organisms decay forming soil on bottom

• Small aquatic plants grow but do not reach surface

•Dragonfly and Mayfly larva as well as weedy bottom fish

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Emergent Plant Stage•Continues to fill with

decaying matter

• Larger plants grow through surface

•Cattails, bullrushes, water lilies

• Frogs, turtles, salamanders, a few fish

• Bacteria consume O2, less available to fish

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Marsh

•No large open areas of water

• Vegetation covers most of the land

•No truly aquatic fish can survive

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Swamp

•Marsh has become more dry, filled with more soil

• Trees start to grow like swamp maple and swamp willow

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Forest

• Swamp has filled in with soil and dried up

• Trees like maple and beech dominate

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•Mount St. Helen’s Regrowth Video Part 5

•Mount St. Helen’s Regrowth Video Part 6