Mechanisms of Succession in Natural Communities and Their Role in Community Stability and Organization.¶
Connell, J. H., & Slatyer, R. O. (1977). Mechanisms of Succession in Natural Communities and Their Role in Community Stability and Organization. The American Naturalist, 111(982), 1119-1144.
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Primes¶
- Ecological Succession
- The trajectory is not driven by external scheduling but by the occupants themselves changing the conditions: pioneers prepare the ground, later occupants exploit it, mid-stages exclude the pioneers, and late stages persist by being the best competitors under the conditions earlier stages produced.
This sourceCanonical statement of the three succession pathways - facilitation, tolerance, and inhibition.
- The trajectory is not driven by external scheduling but by the occupants themselves changing the conditions: pioneers prepare the ground, later occupants exploit it, mid-stages exclude the pioneers, and late stages persist by being the best competitors under the conditions earlier stages produced.
- Recovery
- Ecology. Succession after disturbance — primary succession on bare substrate, secondary succession after fire or storm, and alternative-stable-state recoveries that rebuild to a different community composition.
This sourceClassic account of primary and secondary ecological succession (facilitation, tolerance, inhibition) as post-disturbance recovery.
- Ecology. Succession after disturbance — primary succession on bare substrate, secondary succession after fire or storm, and alternative-stable-state recoveries that rebuild to a different community composition.
- Temporal Dynamics
- The outcome—a monoculture of fast-growing species versus a mixed forest—hinges on temporal structure, not resources.
This sourceClassic synthesis of three succession mechanisms (facilitation, tolerance, inhibition): demonstrates how temporal sequence of species arrival—particularly priority effects from early colonizers—determines successional trajectory and community structure.
- The outcome—a monoculture of fast-growing species versus a mixed forest—hinges on temporal structure, not resources.
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