Short ecological time

Short ecological time

1. a transition time in an area of local equal balance with a maximum of the local minimum of potential energy or maxima of the local minimum of biological diversity; approximately equal to a sum of relaxation times at nonequilibrium transferrings from the areas of local equal balance. Time of successions from the climatic climacterium, completely broken down up to community of climatic climax (from tens of years for meadow communities up to hundreds of years for woods).