Intro

• Plagioclimax- In many areas the human activity that deflects the climax community occurs regularly, so the natural climax community does not have the time to reform and a new community of species develops
• • A long term balance between succession and human activities that maintain many plagioclimax communities produce habitats that don't appear to change for example, grassland, lowland heath and moorland
• • Conservation of climax communities such as natural rainforest, coral reefs, mangroves and Antarctica typically takes the approach of minimal human impact
  • However in the UK Conservation management of plagioclimax communities is usually through maintenance of the traditional activities that created them
• • If the human activity that produced a plagioclimax stops then secondary succession will eventually re-establish the climax community
  • So if the conservation of species that live in a plagioclimax community is the main conservation priority then the activities that produced the plagioclimax must be maintained