Seral Communities
See also: Seral communitiesA seral community is an intermediate stage found in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community. In many cases more than one seral stage evolves until climax conditions are attained. A prisere is a collection of seres making up the development of an area from non-vegetated surfaces to a climax community. Depending on the substratum and climate, a seral community can be one of the following:
- Hydrosere
- Community in freshwater
- Lithosere
- Community on rock
- Psammosere
- Community on sand
- Xerosere
- Community in dry area
- Halosere
- Community in saline body (e.g. a marsh)
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