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Volume 42, Number 1,
December 1996:
The Role of Animals in Succession

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the authors

IN THIS ISSUE
- What is "Succession"?
- Primary Succession
- Secondary Succession
- Pioneer Communities
- Seral Stages
- Climax Communities
- Potential Natural Communities
- Frederick Clements - Father of the Succession Concept
- Victor Shelford
- How do we know if a community is a seral stage or a climax?
- Succesional Indicator Species
- Cyclical Succession
- The Lack of Dominance in Tropical Climax Forests
- Terrestrial Shredders
- Aquatic Shredders
- Ants Revegetate the Outback!
- "Bugs" Reclaim Stripmines!
- Birds and Succession
- Dead Dodo, Dead Tree!
- Ants Around a Prairie Anthill
- How Plants Bribe Ants to Disperse their Seeds
- Prairie Dogs
- Animals that "Plow" our Soil
- Grazing
- Manure, and Dung Beetles
- Seed Banks
- Mammals as Dispersal Agents

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The Role of Animals in Succession
by Thomas Eddy and John Richard Schrock



Dr. F.E. Clements


 

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