(Homonym: cere, sear, seer).
Dry and shriveled. threadbare; withered.

Sequence of changes in population during ecological development of an area. Plant succession developing in a particular habitat. A lithosere is a succession starting on the surface of bare rock. A hydrosere is a succession in shallow freshwater, beginning with planktonic vegetation and the growth of pondweeds and other aquatic plants, and ending with the development of swamp. A plagiosere is the sequence of communities that follows the clearing of the existing vegetation.