(3) the final vegetation community and highest ecological development of a plant community that emerges after a series of successive vegetational stages. The climax community perpetuates itself indefinitely unless disturbed by outside forces.
The stabilized plant community on a particular site. The plant cover reproduces itself and does not change so long as the environment remains the same.
The vegetation that would exist in an area if growth had proceeded undisturbed for an extended period. This would be the "final" collection of plant types that presumably would remain forever, or until the stable conditions were somehow disturbed.
vegetation that is stable and not changing
is a type of vegetation which can be supported by the climatic conditions of an area over the long term
Term used in connection with ecological succession, in this case the point when stable vegetation cover is reached, e.g. forest.
A fully developed plant community that is in equilibrium with its environment.
Climax vegetation is the vegetation which establishes itself on a given site for given climatic conditions in the absence of anthropic action after a long time (it is the asymptotic or quasi-equilibrium state of the local ecosystem).