Category:Hydrosere tarns

A hydrosere is the natural process of an ecological community changing from one state to another over an extended period of time, in this case a small body of water such as a tarn. The open water of such tarns, dependent on certain ecological conditions, will eventually dry out and become woodland. The completion of this process happens via several stages: phytoplankton → submerged → floating → reed swap → sedge-meadow → woodland → climax. This final stage could be forest if humid, grassland if sub-humid, and desert if arid or semi-arid.