Hydrarch and xerarch succession
Ecological succession · Biology
Study notes
Chilika Lake is hydrarch succession live: open water → reeds → marsh → meadow as silt fills it — the lake is slowly becoming land. Rajasthan's sand dunes show xerarch stages: hardy grasses bind sand, shrubs follow, and khejri trees anchor the final desert-woodland. New Tehri's reservoir edges are starting primary hydrarch succession right now.