Word of the Day - Succession

succession

noun
1 A number of people or things of a similar kind following one after the other.
1.1 Geology A group of strata representing a single chronological sequence.
2 mass noun The action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.
2.1 The right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc.
2.2 Ecology The process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached.
Compare with sere

This
word came after ODO suggested "sertaño", an arid Brazilian region of scrub growth; which lead me to "sere/sear", dry and withered vegetation; but "sere" is also the ecology term for succession. One word leads to another, though the logic of the sequence may be mostly mine and might not be what your succession would be.