Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology Plus Mastering Biology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (11th Edition)
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Chapter 28.6, Problem 2TC
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The environmental conditions that favor natural succession, what conditions might slow succession and even allow the ecosystem to remain permanently degraded.
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Succession is a change in the environmental conditions of a region of forests after destruction by a natural calamity such as fire, volcanoes, and earthquakes. This causes the growth of new varieties of plants following a gradual change pattern.
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Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology Plus Mastering Biology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (11th Edition)
Ch. 28.1 - define a community and explain why community...Ch. 28.1 - Prob. 2CYLCh. 28.1 - Prob. 3CYLCh. 28.2 - Prob. 1CSCCh. 28.2 - Prob. 1CTCh. 28.2 - compare interspecific and intraspecific...Ch. 28.2 - explain how competitive exclusion leads to...Ch. 28.3 - define predator and parasite, and distinguish...Ch. 28.3 - Prob. 1HYEWCh. 28.3 - Prob. 1TC
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