### success:

Reproductive success
* Most reproductive success depends on choices
  - mate choices
* Some reproductive success depends on quality food resources
  - the activity of the partners
* is absolutely critical in the continuity of a species.
* is highly dependent on food availability
  - variable due to the unpredictable environment
  - mandatory to keep a species alive and going
  - one of the most important responsibility organisms have
  - reduced by even slight human disturbance
  - the fertility of the offspring produced by the organism
* major determinant of the course of evolution.
* seems to be low in virtually every colony.
* selects genetic codes.

Transplant success
* depends on the immune system.
* is measured by the actuarial overall one-year graft survival rates.

True success
* comes when skills learned in school can be used on the job.
* is achieved when one has the ability to acknowledge and confront error.

Succession
* also occurs on the substrates of aquatic systems where organisms compete for space.
* are most important where someone dies owning real estate.
* begins with pioneer plants that colonize the body of water.
* continual, never-ending process the forest ecosystem is in a constant state of flux.
* involves changes in plant species only
  - the changes that occur in communities over time
* is acquisitions
  - driven by a biological clock
  - natural processes
  - order
  - serieses
* is the gradual change in community structure and abiotic factors over time
  - the relative numbers of different species over time
  - replacement of one community of organisms by another
  - natural process of replacement of one plant community by another
  - natural, orderly change in plant and animal communities that occurs over time
  - process by which one community replaces another
* is the process of change in a plant community
  - the species populations in an area changing over time
  - serial development of different vegetation types at one place in time
  - structure of a biological community that evolves over time
* process of change over time in ecosystems
  - requiring planning, teamwork, and constant re-evaluation
* series of changes from one stage of development to another.
* shows growth.
* starts with pioneer species that can survive in harsh conditions.

### succession:

Plant succession
* begins on bare ground with light-seeded grasses, legumes, and flowering plants
  - when lichens and mosses grow on rock and soil
* replaces bare rock and soil with lush vegetation.

### succession:

Primary succession
* brings the first new organisms to an area devoid of life.
* happens in an area that was devoid of life.
* is essentially the same thing as soil formation in terrestrial systems
  - succession in an area where no previous organisms existed
  - the development of soils
* is the first occupation of a habitat
  - step of succession
  - sequence of communities forming in an originally lifeless habitat
* occurs as a series of organisms moves in
  - if there is no remnant of a prior biological community
* occurs in a newly-created environment, exposed rock or a lake edge
  - terrestrial areas where no soil exists

Secondary succession
* begins after sudden removal of existing plants, and thus with fertile soil.
* is the rebirth of a damaged ecosystem in an area where the soil was left alone
  - replacement of a community following a disturbance
  - when a community was disturbed by human or elemental forces
* occurs as one group of organisms replaces another
  - in areas where there are already some living things
* occurs when disturbed land grows back
  - one community of organisms replaces another