title: Ecological succession: out of the ash.
abstract: A new study of plants recolonising the land devasted when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 is providing important new insights into the interactions with herbivores that determine the pattern and outcome of ecological succession.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Tiffany M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chase
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods; D017753:Ecosystem; D020387:Food Chain; D008954:Models, Biological; D063245:Plant Development; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013045:Species Specificity; D018707:Volcanic Eruptions