Question 1: [8] Many
authors and nature-enthusiasts continue to use the term "climax" in
a diluted form to refer to what might otherwise be called
mature or ________ communities.
Question 3: Clements described the successional development of an ecological
communities as comparable to the ontogenetic development of individual ________.
Question 5: In ecology, a
climax community, or climatic climax
community, is a biological community of plants and ________ which, through the process of ecological succession — the
development of vegetation in an area over time — has reached a
steady state.