ˈsubsere Ecol.
[sub- 5.]
A secondary sere (see quot. 1926). Cf. prisere.
| 1916 [see prisere]. 1926 Tansley & Chipp Aims & Methods in Study of Vegetation ii. 19 A new sere beginning after the succession has been stopped by the destruction of some later phase..we distinguish as a secondary sere or subsere. 1938 Weaver & Clements Plant Ecol. (ed. 2) iii. 78 Seres..on secondary areas, such as lumbered, burned, flooded, or otherwise denuded ones, are termed subseres. 1964 V. J. Chapman Coastal Veg. i. 3 Should an area of dune that has developed to forest become destroyed by burning a new succession would arise, but this would be known as a subsere. |