Secondary succession

Secondary succession

Secondary succession is one of the two types of ecological succession of plant life. As opposed to primary succession, secondary succession is a process started by an event [cite web
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Simply put, secondary succession is the succession that occurs after the initial succession has been disrupted and some plants and animals still exist.

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