Search Result for "ecological succession":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established;
[syn: succession, ecological succession]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ecological succession n 1: (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established [syn: succession, ecological succession]