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climax community

[′klī‚maks kə‚myü·nə·dē]
(ecology)
The final stage in ecological succession in which a relatively constant environment is reached and species composition no longer changes in a directional fashion, but fluctuates about some mean, or average, community composition.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The typical climax community was Neolitsea chuii community, dominated by Neolitsea, Lithocarpus, Castanopsis, and Schima.
Forest diversity and community dynamics along an altitudinal gradient of Ailaoshan Mountain (Yuanyang, Yunnan province, China)
This process results in the climax community. Primary succession and secondary succession have different points of origin but proceed in a parallel manner.
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