Succession as the Result of Demographic Processes

Abstract

The processes of phytocoenosis formation, changes in it, and its passing, no doubt result from intra-population processes and inter-population interactions against the environment of living, broadly understood. The range of inter-individual and inter-population reactions within phytocoenoses can be explained by the life strategy of species. Individual characteristics as the size, habitus, organ durability, manner of vegetative renewal, and reproduction mode, all shape the population properties, and thereby determine the role of a particular species in a phytocoenosis. The role is expressed by the species being a member of one or several phytocoenoses during a progressing succession, where its status is that of a dominant permanent component, or a temporary complementary element.