primary succession and secondary succession. Primary succession happens when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time. This can happen, for example, when lava cools and creates new ...

For example, if an oak-hickory forest had a ... Horn, H. S. The ecology of secondary succession. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5, 25-37 (1974). Hubbell, S. P. The Unified Neutral ...

To test these hypotheses, the high-throughput sequencing technology was used to investigate the changes in the bacterial and fungal communities during the secondary succession in swidden agricultural ...