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ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
Synonyms:
ecological succession; succession
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("ecological succession" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
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