What can a climax community be replaced with?

Question

Honestly, I really need a quick answer on this question. Seriously, this has to be quick.

Answer 1

Hi Edmond C.,

Sorry that I didn't see your question earlier.

A climax community is a biome or community that has reached a stable stage.

What it can be replaced with is an unstable or successive community (such as, our hunting of Mountain Lions to near extinction created an unstable community wherein the deer became over-populated or planting trees to replace the grass that grows near a lake).

A good example of successive communities reaching a climax community would be an area were there is a pond, over hundreds of years the pond fills with silt and gradually becomes a meadow, tree start to encroach in toward the meadow, gradually the meadow dries and is covered with a forest of trees that are inhabited by wildlife... that final stage is the "climax" of that community.

I hope this helps.

Hiking Tony