AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Climax species, epiphytes and parasites are the final stages of the rainforest. This stage is best known in Daintree and Iron Range. The trees here are slow growing trees often referred to as Oscars due to their long periods of not growing until conditions are ideal.

Detailed explanation-2: -The early ecologists who first studied succession thought of it as a predictable process in which a community always went through the same series of stages. They also thought that the end result of succession was a stable, unchanging final state called a climax community, largely determined by an area’s climate.

Detailed explanation-3: -A climax community is one that has reached the stable stage. When extensive and well defined, the climax community is called a biome. Examples are tundra, grassland, desert, and the deciduous, coniferous, and tropical rain forests.

Detailed explanation-4: -climax, in ecology, the final stage of biotic succession attainable by a plant community in an area under the environmental conditions present at a particular time.