Ecological succession is the progressive change, in an ecosystem, of species composition over time. With the change in species composition comes a series of modifications in community structure and ...

Facilitation of later-arriving species by early colonists is one of several mechanisms that together drive the directional changes in species composition observed in primary succession. However, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Little is known of how changes in plant function may influence adaptive traits amongst animals further up the food chain. We addressed the ...