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Also Known As succession • community succession • ecosystem development

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secondary ecological succession
Learn about ecological succession with the help of a sunken ship, S.S. President Coolidge to demonstrate the process in a tropical coral reef
How does a forest recover after a wildfire?
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist