Temporal succession has been studied in areas that experience flash flooding regularly.
Thus it is thought to be associated with younger, earlier successional forest but is no longer present in mature, late successional forest.
The French naturalist Adolphe Dureau de la Malle was the first to make use of the word succession concerning the vegetation development after forest clear-cutting.
Reed beds are part of a succession from young reed colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground.
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He was the first to use the term succession (prior to Steenstrups use) about an ecological phenomenon and probably the first to use the term community (ecology) (societé) for an assemblage of (plant) individuals of different species (prior to Karl Möbius).