climax community

More animals are then attracted to the place and finally a climax community is reached.

The concept of climax communities has been challenged in recent years.

In certain areas different climax communities develop under similar climatic conditions.

The longleaf pine ecosystem is known as a fire climax community.

Stabilization: Reaction phase leads to development of a climax community.

The animal population increases and diversifies with the development of forest climax community.

For example, development of Maple-beech climax community over moist soil.

There is no net annual accumulation of organic matter in a climax community mostly.

Many intermediate tree stages develop prior to establishment of a climax community.

Clements indicated that a given site's climax community would reflect local climate.

The succession culminates in a climax community, the forest.

In each case, human activity has led to a community which is not the climax community expected in such an area.

This equilibrium was thought to occur because the climax community is composed of species best adapted to average conditions in that area.

When it is a fully functioning ecosystem, it has reached the climax community stage.

Because of this, successional processes may or may not lead to some static, climax community.

If the conditions allow, the final climax community for several different seres is the beech-maple community.

Scrub invasion is managed to maintain a state of semi-equilibrium and prevent succession to a climax community.

According to this theory the total environment of the ecosystem determines the composition, species structure, and balance of a climax community.

Coniferous forests and heathland are common climax communities for sand dune systems.

A seral community is an intermediate stage found in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community.

But gardening may be described as the activity of interfering with natural plant succession and preventing the establishment of a climax community.

The National Trust allows grazing on the down to prevent it becoming a natural beech woodland climax community.

Finally a self-perpetuating climax community develops.

The climax community represents a pattern of populations that corresponds to and changes with the pattern of environment.

He conceptualized the climax community as a "superorganism" that followed a defined developmental sequence (Clements 1916).