Biology

The type of succession described in the picture is secondary succession.

Here’s why:

1.Secondary succession occurs in areas that have experienced a disturbance (like a fire, flood, or human activity) but where soil and some organisms still remain. In this case, the fire has disturbed the ecosystem, but the soil is still present, allowing new plants to grow more quickly than they would in a primary succession scenario, where soil has to form from scratch.

2.The stages described in your question — from annual plants and pioneer species to grasses, shrubs, pines, and young oak and hickory, and ultimately to a mature oak and hickory forest — follow the typical pattern of secondary succession. In secondary succession, the process starts from a...