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Noun: ecological succession
  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
    - succession

Derived forms: ecological successions

Type of: action, activity, natural action, natural process

Encyclopedia: Ecological succession

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