Succession

Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence. ==Political succession== In politics, succession is the ascension to power by one politician or monarch after another, usually in a clearly defined order. For more information on specific succession procedures, see: * Order of succession (royal) ** ''In the United Kingdom'' *** Act of Settlement 1701 *** Line of succession to the British Throne ** Line of succession to the Norwegian throne ** Line of succession to the Swedish throne ** Line of succession to the Monegasque Throne * Presidential Succession Act (United States) ** United States presidential line of succession * Succession planning (corporate) ==Ecological succession== ''For the detailed treatment of this subject, see Ecological succession.'' In ecology, succession is the replacement of one biological community by another. Succession can be ''primary'' or ''secondary''. Primary succession occurs on essentially new substrata: bare rock or soil that has never been colonised before. Examples would be dune and lava. Secondary succession occurs on land which has been colonised before, but has been disturbed back to some earlier state. Examples would include a drained reservoir, cleared forest, or ploughed field. Succession begins with arrival of the pioneer species and leads eventually to establishment of a climax community. In primary successions pioneer species are typically hardy plants that survive under harsh conditions. On English sand dunes, marram grass has deep roots to tap into the water table, rhizomes to bind the soil, and leaves that reduce water loss through transpiration. On lava flows the first plants to colonize are adapted to survive in thin or no soils and possibly little water. The pioneer plants add organic matter to the soil, and help bind soil particles together, eventually allowing other species to colonise the area. This process slowly enhances the soil quality, enabling a ''sequence'' of other species assemblages to survive until a climax community is established. Climax communities are those communities of plants, animals, fungi, etc. that will be able to replace themselves with new generations of the same species. The climax community of an area will be determined by the characteristics of an area, such as elevation, soil type, and amount of rainfall. The climax communities most people are familiar with are usually some form of woodland that comes in after a field is abandoned. == Musical succession == In music or musical set theory, a succession is a series of any musical parameters including pitch (music)es, pitch classes, or simultaneity (see simultaneity succession). ''Succession'' may be thought of as a more general term for any possible progression, as in chord progression or harmony progression, though not all simultaneity successions are harmonic progressions.

Succession

I wrote all this from memory, and thought Psamosere was the dry system, and Xerosere was the west system, but now I think about I think Xerosere is the wet system, Psamosere is simply the scientific name for sand dune system and I've forgotten what the wet system is called! (hydrosere? makes sense, but I don't remember). Unless someone sorts it all out I'll go and get the books out make sure... --User:Steinsky 02:39, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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See also Template:PeerNavbox. I've taken the liberty of replacing some of the tables linked from here, because of the unnecessary "of Sweden" bit appearing at the end of each. The main goal should be superiority of content and appearance (which IMO is diminished by such tables including "of Sweden") rather than convenience (which is, of course, enhanced). -- User:Lord Emsworth 02:32, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC) :Without "of Sweden" or anything like that, this template becomes useful for lots of different articles. -- User:Cyrius|User talk:Cyrius 04:50, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC) ::Function ought to be the overriding concern here. "Throne" in the template might be substituted for the somewhat more neutral "Office", however the current status does not impair its function. -- User:Mic 23:39, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Switch to skin-formatting == Should this be changed over to the new format (id="toc")?
User:Jdforrester User_talk:Jdforrester 17:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) Would anyone object if I update the table with a prettier version (and appropriately update Template:preceded and Template:succeeded too, in place of prev/next in this example)? {| style="margin:0 auto;" align=center width=80% class="toccolours" |- |align=center style="background-color:#ccccff;width:35%"|Preceded by:||rowspan="2" align=center style="width:30%"|{}||align=center style="background-color:#ccccff;width:35%"|Succeeded by: |- |align=center style="background-color:white;"|{}||align=center style="background-color:white;"|{} |} --User:Gene s 13:46, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC) : Given that I suggested switching a fortnight ago, I'm happy with changing the box itself, but I don't think it looks so good with the differently-coloured "Preceded by:" and "Succeeded by:" bits... : User:Jdforrester User_talk:Jdforrester 13:36, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) : P.S. Actually, also, I don't think it works too well on two lines, because it makes the spacing that bit larger... : User:Jdforrester User_talk:Jdforrester 13:38, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) :: Well, it copies the style of various geography templates. It has the same color and spacing as, for example, the Template:G8 or Template:Europe. --User:Gene s 14:19, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::: That it may be, but these are not set boxes like the ones you mentioned, but instead succession boxes, which, everywhere, seem to use the formatting as shown on Tony Blair, Winston Churchill, and several hundred other articles on British politicians... ::: User:Jdforrester User_talk:Jdforrester 17:07, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::: "Everywhere" is a big stretch. As far as I can see, the majority of articles still uses the plain HTML table for succession boxes, or no succession at all. The succession box on Winston_Churchill page looks unreasonably verbose with "Preceded by" and "Succeeded by" in every row. :::: I believe all navigation tables should have the same look. The geography navigation IMO looks prettier. It serves the same purpose as the succession navigation boxes. I don't see a reason why they should be formatted differently. The British politicians succession boxes use templates. It would not be too hard to update that template to the same look as the geography navigation. --User:Gene s 05:04, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::: And another point regaring on Winston_Churchill page. It bolds all text except years in office and padding (preceded/succeeded) which is useless in the first place. Bolding everything is wrong. Bolding should be used to emphesize a certain part of the text. When everything is bold (everything emphesized), then it's equivalent to nothing being emphesized. --User:Gene s 07:41, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::: And yet anothet point regaring . The internal inter-cell vertical lines in that box are black, while horizontal lines and outer borders are gray. Why? :::: What's the reason for assigning style information through id (id=toc) instead of an explicit class declaration? Having two or more elements with the same id is invalid (see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id ''This name must be unique in a document.''). That page has multiple elements with the same id - the actual TOC and every row in the navigation box. That should be fixed. --User:Gene s 07:50, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) ''copied to Template talk:Succession box'' User:Jdforrester User_talk:Jdforrester 13:39, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Compatibility with the template "succession box"== :''Note: I'm going to use quotation mark for the template brackets so there won't be any problem with HTML.'' As you can see in the page history, I've made a few changes in this template to make it more similar of the existing "succession box". I don't see the point in having two different kinds of boxes for the same purpose; uniformity would be great in this aspect. However, this box called "succession" is easier to use so I'd prefer to use it when it's possible. The other reason why it should look the same as "succession box" is because only the latter can include multiple periods of reign under each other (by using "start box" and "end box"). So if one wants to use the simpler version, this "succession", sometimes they'll have to change for "succession box" when some ruler reigned multiple times. This happened in the case of Peter Urseolo of Hungary: before and after him "succession" is used, but I had to apply "succession box" on his page. The problem is that "succession" doesn't include dates, which "succession box" includes, so it will still look different from that. Do you think we could include the place for the dates in this template? User:Adam78 23:23, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) : I proposed identical formatting originally (having done a great deal of work with both templates), but was shouted down (as you can see both above and at the talk page of the succession box template). : Good luck trying. : User:Jdforrester User_talk:Jdforrester 00:10, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

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