PRIMARY ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION:
Ecological Succession is the progressive series of changes that leads to an establishment of a relatively
stable climax community.
Succession which starts in areas where
no living organisms ever existed is called primary succession.
Examples of areas where primary succession occurs are newly cooled lava, bare rock, newly created pond or
reservoir etc.
The species that invade a bare area are called
pioneer species. The establishment of a new biotic community is generally slow as it takes natural processes several hundred to several thousand years to
produce fertile soil on bare rock.
