Lecture 16: Communities: Succession Flashcards

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define succession

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The sequence of community changes that is initiated by and following a major disturbance or the creation of new land

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Exact community composition is dynamic, but overall structure is relatively ____ in the ________.

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  • stable
  • absence of major disturbance
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define climax community

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  • The community that results from succession
  • what we typically think of as the dynamically stable community.
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Successional process is initiated by, and largely defined by, the succession of the _______

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primary producers

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define primary succession

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The establishment and development of communities in newly formed or disturbed areas devoid of life

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define secondary succession

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Regeneration of communities from a disturbed state.

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7
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what is the foundation of succession

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primary producers

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What determines species presence in a successional stage of a successional sequence?

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  • How well it can colonize a newly disturbed area
  • How it responds to environmental (abiotic and biotic) changes during succession
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Different species can vary greatly in their __________ in a given successional sequence

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capacity (i.e. adaptations) to colonize and persist

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A variety of _________ can also shape the successional sequence

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species interactions

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define inhibition

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  • The presence of one species reduces the probability of establishment by another species
  • typically competition that may shift in balance as succession proceeds
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12
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define facilitation

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Processes where the presence of one species increases the probability of a second species becoming established

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facilitation - examples

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  • nurse tree (commensalism)
  • ecosystem engineer (commensalism)
  • mutualistic partner
  • host species for parasite.
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14
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define priority effect

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  • The outcome of an interaction between two species is determined by which one becomes established first
  • early advantage impacting outcome of competition
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15
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define tolerance

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The persistence of a species through a successional sequence is not influenced by its interactions with other species, only its interactions with the environment.

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16
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progression from early to late succession growth-forms

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this progression changes light, temperature, soil moisture, and nutrient conditions

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growth forms in late succession

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large growth forms begin to dominate, environmental change slows, and the successional sequence arrives at a climax state.

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Final biomass in a community is ___________, independent of what happened during the successional sequence.

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limited by regional climate

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Community composition can _______ once a climax state has been reached at the end of a succession — the ______ we have been looking at so far

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  • continue to change slowly
  • dynamic stable state
20
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define transient climaxes

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successional sequence, followed by climax and collapse of communities that happens on a regular cycle

21
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what are successional gaps within climax communities defined by?

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  • patchwork structure of climax and other successional stages
  • potentially maintains higher diversity within the community.
22
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what promotes the overall diversity of the community?

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Simultaneous presence of successional and climax species

23
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Many ______ start an invasion from disturbed areas and are _________.

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  • invasive species
  • early succession specialists
24
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Mutualistic and antagonistic soil fungi and other organisms can drive the success of plant invasion, if there is ________ and ________.

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  • chance facilitation
  • absence of inhibition
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________ may also facilitate invasion, especially in human-modified landscapes
Sustained disturbance
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succession and invasive species - what happens when there is no sustained disturbance
many invasions would fall to low abundance or disappear
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early vs late succession - number of seeds
- early: many - late: few
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early vs late succession - seed size
- early: small - late: large
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early vs late succession - mode of dispersal
- early: wind or stuck to animals - late: gravity or eaten by animals
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early vs late succession - seed viability
- early: long (presence in seed bank) - late: short
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early vs late succession - root:shoot ratio
- early: low - late: high
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early vs late succession - growth rate
- early: fast - late: slow
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early vs late succession - size at maturity
- early: small - late: large
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early vs late succession - shade tolerance
- early: low - late: high
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describe the consistent pattern in species richness that succession creates
Early, rapid increase in richness followed by a late succession plateau and slight decline in the climax community
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why is there a slight decline in the climax community
- it hits the carrying capacity and overshoots - the decline is the die-off period
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Successional changes in plant community shifts the habitat, driving _______ in animal communities
associated changes