What are some examples of biotic succession?

Succession is often classified as being either primary or secondary succession. Primary succession is a description of what happens after an entire, or very nearly entire ecosystem is wiped clean. Some examples of this are the include the area surrounding Mt. read more

Primary succession takes longer because is started from ‘zero’, so-to-speak. Whereas secondary succession is where the community exploits a habitat that had previously been colonized. In the aquatic realm a similar process can be observed for a pond. read more

Biotic factors are the living components of an ecosystem. See some examples of each type of biotic factor - producers or autotrophs, consumers or heterotrophs, and decomposers or detritivores. read more