Much of the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra was devastated by the 2004 tsunami. The recovery of forests in that area is an example of

A. secondary succession.
B. facilitation.
C. the diversity-stability hypothesis.
D. primary succession.
E. island biogeography.


A. secondary succession.

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