Seral community
A seral community is an intermediate stage found in ecological succession in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community. In many cases more than one seral stage evolves until climax conditions are attained.[1] A prisere is a collection of seres making up the development of an area from non-vegetated surfaces to a climax community.
A seral community is the name given to each group of plants within the succession. A
Computer modeling is sometimes used to evaluate likely succession stages in a seral community.[2]
Depending on the substratum and climate, a seral community can be one of the following:
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- Hydrosere
- Community in water
- Lithosere
- Community on rock
- Psammosere
- Community on sand
- Xerosere
- Community in dry area
- Halosere
- Community in saline body (e.g. a salt marsh)
Examples
Seral communities in
fireweed will be abundant. After a few more years shrubs will start to appear; and about six to eight years after clearing, the area is likely to be crowded with young birches
. Each of these stages can be referred to as a seral community.
In the far western part of
toyon is often a locally dominant taxon in seral communities transitional between coastal sage scrub.[3]
See also
- Allogenic succession
- Autogenic succession
- Frederic Clements
- Plagioclimax
References
- ISBN 0-521-55986-3.
- ISBN 0-521-63122-X.
- ^ Hogan, C. Michael. "Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia)". GlobalTwitcher.com. Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2009-08-19.