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Hill Country Naturalist
Plant Succession: How Mother Nature Rearranges Her Landscape, and How We Are Involved
Think about a volcano emerging from the surface of the ocean and forming a new island, new land. At first there is no life of any kind on the island. Eventually, however, after the lava has cooled, there may be some bacteria and fungi that begin to grow on the lava at the edge of the water, and these microorganisms begin a very long, slow process of breaking down the rock.
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