Botany - Ecosystem Question with Solution | TestHub

Hydrosere is the series of biotic communities that form/develop in a newly formed aquatic system like a lake or pond.

Hydrosere has several stages of succession as below -

Phytoplanktons (producers)$\to$zooplanktons (consumer)$\to$rooted submerged hydrophytes$\to$free-floating hydrophytes$\to$reed swamps$\to$sedges or marsh-meadow stage$\to$woodland or scrub stage$\to$trees (climax forest).