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Vocabulary Term Details

Climax communities

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_communities)

In ecology, climax community, or climatic climax community, is a historic term that expressed a biological community of plants and animals and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession — the development of vegetation in an area over time — had reached a steady state. (Wikipedia)

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Broader TermsNarrower TermsRelated Terms
Plant communities
N/AEcological succession
Grasslands

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Approved Date
05-Aug-2013

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