Question

Compare primary succession and climax community. Be sure to identify how long-term survival of species is dependent on resources that may be limited.

Answer 1

Answer:

Primary succession is the colonization of species of organisms on life-less barren lands after a volcanic eruption, newly formed land, or sand dunes. Lichens and mosses are the known primary succession community of organisms that helps in developing conditions for secondary succession by breaking rocks and providing soil.

After a fair amount of time, there are new species of organisms that grow and colonize in the land and these are, and ultimately the community becomes fairly stable. A climax community is a more stable, mature community that undergoes little or no change which can live for hundreds of years on the land.

The long-term survival of species is dependent on various kind of resources that may be limited, this can be explained by the lichens and mosses that have enough amount of nutrition and resources during primary succession but as new organism comes with complex structure and competes with these lichens and mosses their number decline due to limited amount of resources.