Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation¶
Clements, F. E. (1916). Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation.
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- Develops-From Relation
- In ecological succession a pioneer community develops into a mid-successional and ultimately a climax community on the same patch of ground, the patch being the continuant.
This sourceFoundational treatment of ecological succession — pioneer to mid-successional to climax community on the same patch — as developmental progression of the continuant site.
- In ecological succession a pioneer community develops into a mid-successional and ultimately a climax community on the same patch of ground, the patch being the continuant.
- Ecological Succession
- The vocabulary is ecological, which is why the prime grades as mixed-structural rather than pure-structural, but the substrate-modification mechanism travels intact, and the Clementsian climax-as-fixed-endpoint claim — empirically contested even within ecology — is not load-bearing for the transfer; the prime survives the contest because the substrate-modifying succession mechanism is real even where the specific climax claim is weak.
This sourceOrigin of the climax-community theory of succession, whose fixed-endpoint claim is empirically contested.
- The vocabulary is ecological, which is why the prime grades as mixed-structural rather than pure-structural, but the substrate-modification mechanism travels intact, and the Clementsian climax-as-fixed-endpoint claim — empirically contested even within ecology — is not load-bearing for the transfer; the prime survives the contest because the substrate-modifying succession mechanism is real even where the specific climax claim is weak.
- Time
- A disturbance analyst can predict the trajectory of a burned forest years in advance because time-ordered succession is a structural feature of ecosystem dynamics, a sequence that Clements (1916) formalized as the canonical model of plant community development through stages culminating in a stable climax community.
This sourceCarnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 242. Foundational ecological treatise: formalizes succession as a predictable temporal sequence of plant community development, with each stage modifying the environment to enable the next, culminating in a stable climax community.
- A disturbance analyst can predict the trajectory of a burned forest years in advance because time-ordered succession is a structural feature of ecosystem dynamics, a sequence that Clements (1916) formalized as the canonical model of plant community development through stages culminating in a stable climax community.
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