ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ecological succession mean? 

• ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION (noun)
  The noun ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION (noun)

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

ecological succession; succession

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)