Ecological succession is the progression of structural and compositional changes in ecosystems.
The remaining ecological zones, with their progression from shoreline to climax forest, are a classic illustration of the concept of ecological succession.
The CF microbiota is a complex community, but the use of molecular ecological approaches permits the progression of CF airway disease to be comprehensively explored.
However, the mechanisms underlying the progression from ecological selection to reproductive isolation have not been well defined until recently [ 77].
Further, the identification of several old infestations in the East Bay, Mendocino, and Napa counties that did not develop into epidemic outbreaks like other equally-aged or even younger infestations (Big Sur, Southern Humboldt, West Marin) suggests the presence of strong and different local ecological constraints to disease progression.
Introduction: Lower respiratory tract infections are very common in intensive care units and require rapid microbiological diagnosis in order to optimize the clinical progression and minimize the ecological impact.
Evolving networks characterize embryonic development, immunological responses, neuronal activity (thinking and memory), disease origin, progression and cure, and ecological stasis and succession.
Maley and colleagues [ 17] have also shown that ecological measures of clonal diversity predict progression to esophageal adenocarcinoma in Barrett's esophagus in a pattern that is in turn predicted by evolutionary oncology theory [ 6, 10, 17].
Ecological theory is equally useful for understanding cancer progression and resistance to chemotherapy.
This long preclinical phase suggests a typically slow evolutionary progression toward the malignant phenotype; how ecological factors drive this selective process is not known.
