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Climax Community: The stage in community succession where the community has become relatively stable through successful adjustment to its environment.

Literary Climax: (From Greek word for 'ladder') The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. It is also . . . View Full Definition

Open Community: A community in which the populations have different density peaks and range boundaries and are distributed more or less randomly.

Junior-Community College: A Junior/Community College is a two-year institution of higher education. Course offerings generally include a transfer curriculum with credits transferable toward a bachelor's degree at a f . . . View Full Definition

European Community (EC): A regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome (1957), which provided for the gradual elimination of customs duties and other interregional trade barriers, a common external tariff, a . . . View Full Definition

Desired Plant Community: The plant community that has been determined through a land use or management plan to best meet the plan’s objectives for a site. A desired plant community is consistent with the site’s capa . . . View Full Definition

Pioneer Community: The initial community of colonizing species.

Community Succession: The sequential replacement of species in a community by immigration of new species and by local extinction of old ones.

Rhetorical Climax: Also known as auxesis and crescendo, this refers to an artistic arrangement of a list of items so that they appear in a sequence of increasing importance. See rhetorical schemes for more inf . . . View Full Definition

Stressed Community: A community that is disturbed by human activity, such as road building or pollution, and is inadvertently simplified. Some species become superabundant while others disappear.