Question

Ecological success is valuable to understand, because it can change the biodiversity within an ecological community. Being able to teach a topic to a peer can demonstrate mastery! Explain the sequence of events that occur in secondary succession as you would to a friend who had not yet learned about the process.

Answer 1

Answer:

Secondary succession is a process in which a given area is disturbed, being re-colonized by other organisms following this process.

Explanation:

Secondary succession steps:

1- An area suffers a disturbance (e.g., fire, flood, earthquake, etc).

2-The process of disturbance destroys the food chain by removing primary producers (e.g., plants)

3- The vegetation grows back (i.e., first grasses and after higher trees). This process is known as recolonization  

The secondary succession can regenerate an ecosystem in less than 50 years after disturbance. The first species re-established during secondary succession are the animals capable of living in disturbed habitats.