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| process by which one community replaces onther community because of changing abiotic and biotic factors |
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| orderly change that occurs in a place wehre soil remains after a community of organisms has been removed |
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| organism's ability to survive biotic and abiotic factors |
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| establishment of a community in an area of bare rock or bare sand, where no topsoil is present |
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| biotic or abiotic that restricts the number, distribution, or reproduction of a population within a community |
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| stable, mature ecological community with little change in the number of species |
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| group of interacting populations that live in the same geographic area at the same time |
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