hydrosere

As nouns the difference between terms and hydrosere

is that terms is while hydrosere is a plant succession in which an open freshwater naturally dries out, gradually becoming swamp, marsh, etc and ultimately woodland.

As nouns the difference between hydrosere and xerosere

is that hydrosere is a plant succession in which an open freshwater naturally dries out, gradually becoming swamp, marsh, etc. and ultimately woodland while xerosere is the succession of ecological communities which originated in an extremely dry habitat such as a sand desert, sand dunes, a salt desert or a rock desert.

As a noun hydrosere is

a plant succession in which an open freshwater naturally dries out, gradually becoming swamp, marsh, etc and ultimately woodland.