What is ecological succession?
What is the role of disturbance in succession?
What are the stages of succession?
What patterns develop as seral stage changes?
How does succession affect biogeochemical cycling?
How does disturbance affect biogeochemical cycling?
What is a climax community?
What are some examples of succession?
What can be done to restore ecosystems?
What are biomes?
Ecolinks On The Web
- This site is maintained by the University
of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. It contains perspectives on and
definitions of ecological restoration.
- The Society
for Ecological restoration home page. See their Library for
abstracts on a variety of restoration topics.
- Evergreen
Foundation (Canada). This web site provides an extensive
discussion of biodiversity and ecological restoration.
- Mount
St. Helens. This web site contains a wealth of annotated
photographs about the geology and biology of the Mount St. Helens, a Washington
state volcano that erupted in 1980. Find out more about plant and animal
succession at: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/p_a/p_a.html
An index for other biological and geologic information about Mount
St. Helens can be found at: http://volcano.urnd.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/mshINDEX.HTM
- Forest Succession.
This web site contains a brief discussion of forest succession and the
ecosystem changes that accompany succession.
- Glacier
Bay National Park and Preserve. This is a National Park Service
web site about plants, animals and succession at Glacier Bay National Park
and Preserve, Alaska.
- Lake
Baikal. This USGS web site contains facts and data summaries about
Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal, like all lakes, is a sediment sink, note that
sediments in excess of 7 km thick have been reported.
- Fire Ecology
. This University of Central Florida web site provides a brief discussion
of fire ecology.
- Wind
disturbance. This University of Wisconsin-Madison web site
describes the effects of wind disturbance in forests.
- Prairie restoration.
This web site is maintained by Grand Prairie Friends and contains several
links to information and activities about prairie restoration.
- Biomes. This web site contains a listing of major biomes and pertinent links about those biomes.
