Facilitation of later-arriving species by early colonists is one of several mechanisms that together drive the directional changes in species composition observed in primary succession. However, the ...

1. Plant–soil interactions are temporally dynamic in ways that are important for the development of plant communities. Yet, during primary succession, the degree to which changing soil characteristics ...

Many communities of plants and animals are temporary. They exist for some period of time and then are gradually replaced by other species that will, in turn, be replaced by still others. This process ...

A Guam ecologist recently mobilized efforts to characterize the vegetation that has recovered following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. University of Guam ecologist Thomas Marler recently ...