BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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Author: STARR
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Chapter 41, Problem 7SA
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A natural environment is called a habitat when some biological species start living in it. Since its emergence, a habitat of the species changes continuously. This gradual change in the ecosystems and their development is caused by ecological succession. Primary succession and secondary succession are two different types of ecological successions.
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BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
Ch. 41 - The type of place where a species typically lives...Ch. 41 - Which cannot be a symbiosis? a. mutualism c....Ch. 41 - Lizards that eat flies they capture on the ground...Ch. 41 - ________ can lead to resource partitioning. a....Ch. 41 - Prob. 5SACh. 41 - Prob. 6SACh. 41 - Prob. 7SACh. 41 - By the currently favored hypothesis, species...Ch. 41 - Growth of a forest in an abandoned corn field is...Ch. 41 - Prob. 10SA
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