UNI101Y1 Study Guide - Climax Community
16 Feb 2013
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Bio120h lisa zhao 2011 | page 3. Succession leads to the climax community (ultimate expression of community dvlpmt) Each sere develop under a particular set of envmtal conditions, but all progress toward similar climax states. Clements believed that climate alone determined the nature of the local climax and that diff. climax states were discrete, recognizable, and separate from one another (closed community) Communities are more commonly viewed as open sys. today. Alternative climax communities are possible, resulting from factors ex. intensity of a disturbance, size of the gap it produces, physical conditions during early succession. Ccoonnttiinnuuuumm iinnddeexx: the scale of an environmental gradient based on changes in physical characteristics or community composition along that gradient. Suc c essio n en sues as c o lon ist s alt er en vi r on men t al co n ditio n s.
