What effect does succession have on the biodiversity of ecosystems?
First off, succession is the gradual change in a landscape over time. If you were to start with a field, surrounded by a forest, you would see some taller plants near the edge, then some smaller trees further back until it turned into an old growth forest. Primary succession happens over many many years and is exclusively natural. Secondary succession is succession that happens quickly due to a natural disaster or man made force. Next time you are in a parking lot or field, look at the edges and you will see how the structure begins to change the further you go back into the forest. secondly, succession is very important to biodiversity because some species of things (many herbaceous plants, dragonflies, bees, wildflowers, etc…) will only stay in a certain age range of the forest. For example, you would be more likely to find deer in old growth parts of the forest than in new ones, nor would you find plants like sweet fern growing in any other location than on the outskirts of the tr
