ecological succession

1. 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

   Synonymssuccession

   Broadernatural process

   ecology

Questions about ecological succession

What does ecological succession mean?

ecological succession means "(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".

What is another word for ecological succession?

Close synonyms include succession. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ecological succession a common word?

ecological succession is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.