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7. Succession Flashcards

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What is succession?

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Patterns of abundance change with ecological time

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Is succession seasonal?

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No, has no season or cyclical cycle

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What are the 3 types of succession?

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Autogenic, Allogenic, degradative

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What is autogenic succession?

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Self origin, species sequence occurring where change brought about by the biota themselves

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What is Allogenic succession?

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Other origin, species resulting from outside,

Usually abiotic, changes to the environment

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What is degradative succession?

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Occurs when new and degradable resources are used successively by a number of species

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How do salmon provide nutrients to the surrounding habitat?

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Nutrients leach into the ground, extra nitrogen and sustinance for the trees

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What is primary succession?

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Occurs on landforms where no remnants of a previous community exist e.g lava flows

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What is secondary succession?

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Occurs in space opened by complete or partial removal of species, but where resources and propagalues remain, e.g tree falls

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What are the stages of succession?

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Bare ground, pioneer stage, seral stages, climax

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Where can cyclic cycles of succession can occur along the stages

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Seral and climax

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Which stages do good colonists thrive at?

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Pioneer stage

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What are good colonists?

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Poor competitors

High growth rate, small, wide dispersal, fast growth, short lived

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What are Poor Colonists?

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Good competitors

Slow growth, Large size, limited dispersal, slow population growth, long lived, K selection

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What are the mechanisms that drive ecological succession

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Facilitation,
Tolerance,
Inhibition

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What is facilitation?

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Early successional species make the environment more suitable for recruitment for late successional species

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How does the bears feeding habit help grow and provide nutrients to trees?

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Just bite the head of salmon, decomposing fish gives nutrients to the trees

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What is the time scale of primary succession?

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10-100 years

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Is primary succession nominated by few or many species?

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Few

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How does primary succession work for animals/plants

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A-B-C-D, always one dominant species, outdoos the other

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How does secondary succession work for animals/plants?

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Abcd-Bcd-Cd-D

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What is inhibition?

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Early successional species make the environment less suitable for others

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When does inhibition occur?

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Occurs where competitively similar species are present, holds the site against all others till they die out

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What is successional tolerance?

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A species neither facilitates nor inhibits its successors, occurs where competitive hierarchies exist

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What starts the process of succession?
Disturbance
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How can we document succession?
Observe or infer
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What is an example of facilitation?
Plant succession following glacial retreat
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What is an example on inhibition?
Seaweed succession on rocky shores
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What is an example of tolerance?
Old field succession
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How much have glaciers in SE Alaska retreated by since 1750?
120km
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What does the glacier expose which is used as soil?
Glacial till
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What characterises the soil?
Low nitrogen and nutrient content
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Why is glacier bay in Alaska a good example of primary succession?
Clear movement of ice shows clear stages, 98% of tourists travel by boat so no damage by humans
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After 5-10 years what does the bare glacial ground look like?
Colonised by pioneer species, Cyanobacteria. Lichens, dwarf fireweed and misses, nitrogen fixing plants
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What happens to glacier bay after 20 years?
Pioneer flowers bloom such as mountain aven, thin grass cover
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What happens to glacier bay after 30 years?
Small bushes and trees, moderate grass cover, thin soils, trees have yellow leaves due to stress
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What happens to glacier bay after 60 years?
Larger trees and forests, alder, willows, cottonwood, leaves create a build of of soil
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What happens to glacier bay after 100years ?
Larger trees, developed soil, alder, spruce, standing biomass, cold rainforest, very acidic soil
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What happens to glacier bay after 200 years?
Developed forest, spruce trees. Hemlock
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How deep is soil in glacier bay after 200 years?
15.1cm
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What does the melting of these glaciers create?
New streams and rivers
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What is a remnant glacier?
Static glacier at the tops of mountains
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What happened to the stream?
More species inhabited it over years
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Why does the river warm up over time?
Melt water gets hotter
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Which seaweed dominated succession of rocky shores?
Green ulva
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What competes with ulva as the successional period gets older
Gigartina
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What is gigartina better at?
Surviving rough and tough conditions
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What is ulva threatened by?
Storms and crabs
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How did old field sites form in the US?
Pre colonial mixed hardwoods destroyed by frontier farmers6
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What happened to frontier farmers as they moved west?
Exposed fields were colonised by pioneers and regeneration ensued
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What is the typical sequence in old fields?
Annual weeds, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, early trees, late trees
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What is the most common pioneer annual in old fields?
Ragweed
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What is the drawback if ragweed?
Cannot persist under canopy light
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What is the benefit of late successional plants
Shade tolerant
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What is the climax state?
The final or stable community in a successional series
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What is the monoclimax theory?
Succession is directional and predictable, resulting in a single climax?
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What is polyclimax theory?
Many different climax communities can arise and are controlled by soil moisture, Mineral ions activity of animals and topography
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What is climax pattern hypothesis?
Continuum of climax theory that varies along environmental variants
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What is alder in relation to spruce?
Inhibitor

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