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Ecological dictionary C, part 2, climatic climax to competition

                              Ecological dictionary C, part 2 climatic climax stable seral stage in equilibrium determined by the general climate of the region climax term introduced by F. E. Clements in 1916, representing the final stage of ecological succession; a stage of vegetation where P = R that is self-perpetuating in the absence of major disturbance climograph chart in which one major climatic factor is plotted against another coarse-grained refers to a habitat or landscape patch in which the vagility of a given animal species is low relative to the size of the patch coevolution a type of community evolution in which evolutionary interactions occur among organisms in which exchange of genetic information among different populations is minimal or absent; the joint evolution of one species in a non-interbreeding relationship partially de-pending on the evolution of the other through reciprocal selective pressures coexistence two or more specie