PMID: 30024676Mar 1, 2017Paper

Interconnectedness between ecological successions and catenary arrangement of space

Zhurnal obshcheĭ biologii
V G Mordkovich

Abstract

e-mail: mu4@eco.nsc.ru Four aspects related to succession theory are highly disputed. The first aspect concerns broad usage of the term "succession" for any level of life organization. The second aspect concerns the compatibility of chronological and chorological community successions. The third aspect deals with the semantics of the "succession" notion. And the fourth aspect relates to the compatibility of the concepts "succession" and "ecosystem evolution". Indiscriminant use of the term "succession" has been eroding its original meaning. Succession pertains only to the coenotic level of life organization, rather than any level. Succession is not a mere substitution of living forms at different ontogenetic stages, nor merely a change in population structure or biological species composition: succession is an optimization process of a coenotic relations system. Biotic changes at other levels take place independently of coenotic processes. Succession gives an impression of a stochastic chorological sequence only when considered within the frameworks of one subjectively or arbitrary chosen habitat. The latter is regarded as a reference one, while ignoring other neighbouring habitats where biota also undergoes complementary suc...Continue Reading

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