Title of the article:

Succession of plant communities

Author:

B.M. Mirkin, Ph.D. in Biology, Bashkirian State University;

L.G. Naumova, candidate of biological science, Bashkirian State Pedagogical University named by M. Akmulla

Type of the article:

scientific

Pages:

3­- 11

Keywords:

Succession, ecotopes, digression, recultivation, bio-boned substrate, humification, mineralization

Annotation to the article:

Natural plant communities are in a condition of ecological balance with ecotopes: each ecotope option has its own special composition of the plant community. In cases where the ecological balance between the plant community and the ecotope is violated or the plant community is just being formed at the new ecotope, it changes towards the formation of such a balance. Thus not only of the plant community compound adapts to the ecotope, but the ecotope may also change under the influence of the plant community. Such gradual changes in the plant communities are called ecological successions.