The first plant to colonize the plains of Mount Saint Helens after this volcano erupted in 1980 was a prairie lupine

The prairie lupine is therefore an example of ____.



a. a secondary successor
b. a pioneer species
c. a keystone species
d. an exotic species
e. an introduced species


ANSWER: b

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