In ecology, a series of ecological communities that develop on a slope, showing the progression of vegetation from the base to the top of an incline.
From Greek 'kline' (slope) plus 'sere' (an ecological succession series). This botanical term combines classical Greek with the established ecological term 'sere' (series of plant communities).
Walk up a mountain and you're walking through a clisere—tropical plants at the base, temperate forests higher up, alpine meadows at the top; mountains are vertical time machines showing plant evolution compressed into elevation change.
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