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CLIMAX [9 records]

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Record 1 2011-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

A subdivision of an association, dominated by a single species.

CONT

The names "association", "consociation", "society" and "clan" are given to the communities of stable (climax) vegetation in descending order.

CONT

One or another type of northern coniferous forest (or, occasionally, its broad-leafed consociations of Birch or consocies of Aspen) occupies most of the northernmost belt of forested terrain.

OBS

Compare with the closely-related term "consocies", which relates to a consociation of plants in a developmental stage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Unité constitutive d'une association, comportant une espèce dominante caractéristique.

OBS

Voir aussi «consocies», équivalent sérial d'une consociation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biología vegetal
DEF

Comunidad clímax con predominio de una especie.

CONT

Estudio de consociación de distintas especies forrajeras tropicales.

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Record 2 2011-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

An ecological community that suggests a climax in stability and permanence but is not primarily the product of climate.

OBS

Proclimax is a general term which includes all the communities that simulate the climax to some extent but lack the proper sanction of the existing climate. It thus includes subclimax, preclimax, and postclimax, as well as disclimax.

Key term(s)
  • pro-climax

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Formation proche du climax par sa structure, qui en diffère sur le plan floristique, qui a survécu à un changement climatique et qui se trouve sur un sol fossile.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biología vegetal
DEF

Comunidades vegetales de estabilidad similar al clímax, pero que no están en equilibrio con el clima del medio al influir más otro factor.

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Record 3 2008-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

The final or stable community in a series of successive vegetation states that is self-perpetuating and in dynamic balance with the physical and biotic environment.

OBS

climax vegetation community; mature vegetation community; climax plant community: terms used by Parks Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Groupement végétal où la végétation a atteint une très grande stabilité.

OBS

groupement végétal climacique; groupement végétal à maturité; communauté végétale climacique; communauté végétale à maturité : termes en usage à Parcs Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biología vegetal
DEF

Unidad principal de vegetación que comprende las comunidades clímax de una masa.

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Record 4 2004-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Plant Biology
  • Botany
DEF

The climax of a given period of dominance of a specified plant group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Botanique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Botánica
DEF

Clímax de un vegetal durante una determinada etapa de dominancia.

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Record 5 2004-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Ecology (General)
  • Biogeography
CONT

Whether you believed in the monoclimax required by dogmatic interpretations of Clements' writings, or whether you took the pragmatic view that there could be many local climaxes in any climactic region (so-called polyclimax theory) you tacitly assumed that succession was a process of social organization; that it led to an organized entity which you called a society.

OBS

monoclimax theory: The hypothesis that in any one environment there can be only one climax community, in contrast to the hypothesis that there can be several (polyclimax theory).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biogéographie
CONT

[...] Clements admettait que toutes les séries d'évolution de la végétation convergent vers un climax unique, les microclimats et les sols, initialement fort différents, devenant de plus en plus semblables en se rapprochant du climax. [...] à la théorie du monoclimax de Clements, est opposée celle des polyclimax ou des complexes climatiques de nombreux biogéographes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biogeografía
DEF

Clímax único común a una región climática hacia la cual evolucionarían todas las comunidades vegetales.

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Record 6 2004-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Paleontology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Type de végétation ayant l'apparence d'un climax mais ne se maintenait pas grâce à l'action permanente d'un ou de plusieurs facteurs écologique particuliers, souvent humain.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Paleontología
DEF

Formación vegetal que aparenta clímax.

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Record 7 2003-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Soil Science
DEF

A climax community disturbed by man, domestic animals, natural disaster, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Science du sol
DEF

Station écologique dérangée par diverses causes (pâturages, feu, bûchage, etc.)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Ciencia del suelo
DEF

Comunidades diferentes de la clímax que se establecen cuando es destruida ésta.

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Record 8 2003-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Botany
DEF

The (seral) stage in plant succession immediately preceding the climax.

Key term(s)
  • sub-climax

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Botanique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Botánica
DEF

Comunidad vegetal que procede a la clímax en la sucesión ecológica, y cuya maduración y evolución a la clímax climática se restrasa debido a factores edáficos u otro tipo de factores, dentro de los cuales se incluye la actuación del hombre.

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Record 9 2003-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

Sequence of communities of plants (sere) whose first stage is dry ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Écologie (Généralités)
DEF

Séquence de communautés végétales dont le premier stade est un terrain sec.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
DEF

Sucesión de sinecias desde un medio primordial muy seco al óptimo propio del clímax.

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