Succession--From Sand Dune to Forest

Series: Biology Series Unit 1 - Ecology

Duration: 15

Genre: Educational | Nature

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows the ecological succession of animal and plant life in the sand dune area at the southern end of Lake Michigan beginning with the sand washed ashore and ending with this region's climax forest, beech-maple. Explains the stages in the process emphasizing the general principles involved and highlighting significant details. Enumerates the successive stages as sand, drift, dry middle beach, pioneer grasses, cottonwoods, pines, oaks, and beech-maples. Animal life at each ecological interval is indicated.

Complete Record: Shows the ecological succession of animal and plant life in the sand dune area at the southern end of Lake Michigan beginning with the sand washed ashore and ending with this region's climax forest, beech-maple. Explains the stages in the process emphasizing the general principles involved and highlighting significant details. Enumerates the successive stages as sand, drift, dry middle beach, pioneer grasses, cottonwoods, pines, oaks, and beech-maples. Animal life at each ecological interval is indicated., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.