hydrosere

Definitions

Examples

• During the pluvial periods when hydrosere-loving shrews populated the Great Basin, that region may have been a treeless grassland.

• Vagrant shrews, then as now, probably depended on hydrosere communities, while red squirrels required trees.

• The jumping mouse also is limited in its distribution by hydrosere communities, not by forests.

• Sorex palustris is tied closely in its distribution to hydrosere communities and is not dependent upon the presence of forests.

• These hydrosere situations are the habitat of Sorex vagrans.