sere

…Clements considered a community to be an organism, and believed that it followed a cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and death. Depending on the initial conditions of succession, he distinguished between primary and secondary succession, wet and dry succession, and called the series of changes in a community that appear during the succession process a succession sequence. He advocated the monoclimax theory, which states that the climax is determined by the climate, and was critical of regressive succession, which is the opposite direction to the climax. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "sere" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…クレメンツは群落を一つの有機体とみなし，誕生･生長･成熟･死亡といった循環をたどるものと考えた。遷移のはじめの条件によって，一次遷移と二次遷移，湿性遷移と乾性遷移などを区別し，遷移過程に出現する群落の変化の一連の系列を遷移系列sereと呼んだ。極相は気候によって決まるという単極相説を唱え，極相に向かう方向とは逆の退行遷移に否定的な立場をとった。…

※「sere」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報