What do volcanoes, glaciers, sand dunes, storms, agriculture, and fire have in common? They all initiate the process of succession in communities. Aa Aa Aa Succession refers to a directional ...

Figure caption, The sand dunes grow and establish a succession of plants and wildlife The sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr are very unusual because they have formed against a carboniferous limestone ...

Henry Cowles’s (1899) dissertation work on sand dunes along Lake Michigan was inspired by earlier European studies describing succession ... the inhibition model finds early colonists dominating ...