What is secondary sucession?

Answer 1

Secondary succession is the series of community changes which take place on a previously colonized, but disturbed or damaged habitat. Examples include areas which have been cleared of existing vegetation (such as after tree-felling in a woodland) and destructive events such as fires. Secondary succession is usually much quicker than primary succession for the following reasons:

• There is already an existing seed bank of suitable plants in the soil.
• Root systems undisturbed in the soil, stumps and other plant parts from previously existing plants can rapidly regenerate.
• The fertility and structure of the soil has also already been substantially modified by previous organisms to make it more suitable for growth and colonization.
• It occurs in land and marine communities - Novanet

Answer 2

Do you mean secondary succession?

Succession in ecology means the sequence of changes which take place in a community over time when a habitat is colonised.

Primary succession is the colonisation of a new habitat, previously uncolonised eg a larva flow or a landslide.

Secondary succession occurs when organisms colonise a habitat which has been disturbed so that the previous community has been partly destroyed eg after a fire or a flood.

Answer 3

Secondary succession is the process that an ecosystem undergoes after a destructive event like fire, deforestation and avalanche. The development of new inhabitants that will replace the previous community can be a good example of secondary succession.

Answer 4

Secondary succession is the series of community changes which take place on a previously colonized, but disturbed or damaged habitat.

Succession is defined as a disturbance. Secondary succession is a disturbance that disrupts, but does not destroy the ecosystem.

Answer 5

I'm guessing your asking the difference between secondary and primary succession.

Primary is when the ecosystem starts as just rock no soil then lichens break down the rock and the biological materials they are made of turn into the soil allowing larger shrubs and eventually the ecosystem turns into a forest.

Secondary succession is when soil is already present for instance if there was a fire in a developed forest.

Answer 6

A primary succesion is an area that has not been previously occupied by a community.

Answer 7

the series of changes tht occur in an area where other organisms have live once therea and then moved. bro <3