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subˈclimax Ecol.
[f. sub- 23 + climax 4 b.]
A point in an ecological succession at which a plant community is prevented by climatic or other factors from reaching its natural climax.
1916F. E. Clements Plant Succession vi. 107 Such apparent climaxes are always subordinate to the normal developmental or climatic climax, and may accordingly be distinguished as subclimaxes. 1926Tansley & Chipp Aims & Methods in Study of Vegetation ii. 9 Such an edaphic climax may be a climatic sub-climax. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man iii. 104 If grassland is not the natural climax of plant life, but is only a ‘sub-climax’,..then it will stand very heavy grazing. 1952Jrnl. Ecol. XL. 105 It appears..that this is in reality a grazing sub⁓climax vegetation. 1979Nature 11 Oct. 425/2 Weedy herbs support fewer fungal parasites than do climax and subclimax herbs in the US. |