Once these fields were abandoned, the process of ecological succession proceeded relatively rapidly.

They are eventually erased by washout, erosion, and ecological succession.

It is found in the early to middle (seral) stages of ecological succession.

Fire prevents ecological succession in the open habitat where the plant grows.

Without fire, sandhills undergo ecological succession and become more oak dominated.

Here Cowles found evidence of ecological succession in the vegetation and the soil with relation to age.

It can be found in each stage of ecological succession on grasslands.

They are often the first plants to take hold in a mudflat and begin its ecological succession into a salt marsh.

This allows the natural ecological succession for the island to proceed without outside interference.

Such alteration, accompanied by changes in the abundance of different species over time, is called ecological succession.