AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -1 Answer. In short, changes to soil content increases nutrients available which in turn spawns the growth of new foliage which increases diversity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Diversity increases during succession following a large scale disturbance. Evidence from communities characterized by different disturbance regimes is summarized from the literature. This hypothesis provides an evolutionary mechanism with which to examine the changes in plant community structure during succession.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ecological succession is the process that describes how the structure of a biological community (that is, an interacting group of various species in a desert, forest, grassland, marine environment, and so on) changes over time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cyclical succession is when a community is changed by recurring events or changing interactions with species of plants or animals. An example of this is the repeated fire cycles of the coastal chaparral ecosystem of California.