| A | B |
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| dominantspecies | those species that most strongly affect the community |
| primarysuccession | the formation of a community |
| secondarysuccession | the process that occurs when an existing community is disturbed. |
| protists | a one celled organism with both plant-like and animal-like characteristics |
| pioneercommunity | tdhe firt community to appear after a community has been disrupted. |
| pioneerspecies | the first organism of growth in an area. |
| succesion | process of gradual change in a community in which different species become dominant. |
| rotifers | any of a large group of many celled microscopic animals found in ponds and puddles, having a ring of cilia at one end that is used for locomotion and feeding. |
| climaxcommunity | the final stage in the ecological development of a given community of plants, animals, and other organisims, in which species are stable and perpetuate themselves as long as the same ecological conditions persist. |
