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Pre-emptive Colonisation
When pioneer organisms alter the condition in the habitat in ways that discourage further succession, it is called pre-emptive colonisation which may extend the rule of the pioneer organism, but populations better adapted to the newly colonised habitat (altered habitat) usually replace the pioneers. Gradually secondary invaders are also replaced. Succession ends when a relatively stable community called a climax community is achieved.