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Ultimately, even if succession tends towards a steady state, the time required to achieve this state is unrealistically long ; in most cases, external disturbances and environmental change occur so frequently that the realization of a climax community is unlikely, and therefore it has come to be regarded as a less useful concept.
Long-term vegetation dynamics are now more often characterized as resulting from the action of stochastic factors.
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