postclimax

noun

post·​climax

: a relatively stable ecological community requiring a greater amount of available moisture than that generally available to a climax and occurring typically where locally abundant soil moisture compensates for a generally deficient precipitation

a forest postclimax on a moist northward-facing slope within a grassland climax

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Word History

Etymology

post- + climax

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