Section 01
Succession
What comes back, and in what order. Each entry names the species or the process and says what is actually observed, separating what is measured from what is inferred.
What comes back first
Bare ground does not stay bare. The order is broadly predictable — wind-blown colonisers, then scrub, then trees — but the details depend entirely on what the disturbance left behind.
Long entry
The seed bank
Viable seed sitting in the soil for decades, waiting for light.
Short entry
Pioneer species
Fast, light-seeded and short-lived — built for a gap.
Short entry
After fire
Heat as a trigger rather than only a destroyer.
Short entry
Arrested succession
Ground held at an early stage by grazing, cutting or flooding.
Short entry
Old growth
What only appears after a very long time without disturbance.
Short entry
6 entries in Succession. Every entry in the publication is listed on the register.