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COMMUNITY CHANGE (SUCCESSION) Krebs chap. 21; pages 403-424; 431 “the non-seasonal, directional and continuous pattern of colonization and extinction of species populations on a site”
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PRIMARY SUCCESSION Mt. St. Helens pp403-405 Lake Michigan dunes pp416-419 Glacier Bay pp413-416
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SECONDARY SUCCESSION Krebs pp419-422 Abandoned fields Forest regrowth Abandoned lots
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Mount St. Helens Vegetation recovery
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Sand dune ecology Vegetation hummock Beach grass
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Fig 21.11Profile of Lake Michigan sand dunes succession “SFT” – space-for-time substitution pastpresent
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“Polyclimax” sand dune successions Fig. 21-12
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Krebs Fig. 21.7 Ice recession in Glacier Bay, Alaska, since 1760 1940 1860 1760
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Alders and cottonwoods covering the hillsides 50 years
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Spruce coming into the alder and cottonwood forest 100 years
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Spruce and hemlock forest 250 years
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Fig 21.9Change in soil-N Topsoil Mineral soil
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1 year later Wildfire
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Wind disturbance (“blowdowns”)
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Opax Mountain Silvicultural Systems Trial (near Kamloops, BC)
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Control burning
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Control burn plot
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Monitoring succession after fire
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