Ecological Succession

Here are a few links to some useful animations on succession for the Foundation Studies group. These animations will provide you with specific examples of succession happening in the environmnet. When I say specific, I mean it provides the proper names of the plants and so on.

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp55/55020.html (this is based on a glacial moraine)

http://yteach.co.uk/page.php/resources/view_all?id=biocoenosis_biosphere_ecosystem_evolution_energy_species_gene_homeostasis_generation_population_air_seat_succession_t_page_8&from=search (this is just a sample)

http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animations/ch23_animations/animation1.html

http://www.nodvin.net/snhu/SCI219/demos/Chapter_4/Chapter_04/Present/animations/50_2_2_1.html (this is quite interesting)