‘When you are walking along the bottom of the Mt. Fuji, you will find a big ‘tree of sea’. Most of the trees are growing on the cooled lava.’ said by the tour guide.
Then, an Italian tourist amazed and replied, ‘It’s stunning. No tree is growing on the cooled lava in Italy.’
Both of them are correct, what kind of concept applied here?
The answer is ‘Plant succession’. From bare rock to forest, this is an important and fundamental process of the making of the planet earth.
Here is Mt. Fuji
Here is Mt. Etna
