Primary Succession
PRIMARY SUCCESSION is hard to get started in a desert biome. The lack of existing plantlife, healthy soil and water makes for difficult conditions in repopulating a desert. In the Mojave, earthquakes shake the ground and the soil, ravishing it. Over time the ground rebuilds and regenerates to the quality it once was.
Secondary Succession
SECONDARY SUCCESSSION can bring across a whole new array of life for a desert life in the Mojave. On the rare occasion that the Desert gets rainfall, flash flooding will occur, resulting in a remoisturizing of the soil. This can lead to a boom in growth resulting in several times of flowers, cacti, shrubbery, etc. thriving.
Human Impact
Humans have had a huge impact on the Mojave Desert. The Mojave is 125,000 square foot. The desert consists four National Parks now which makes the Mojave be looked at as a desert. The Mojave was know as a place that you could go and think and get a way from the world, and not worry about disturbing the peace, which is why the United States built military training facilities there.
Biogeochemical Cycle
The Biogeochemical Cycle goes through both the Biosphere and Lithosphere. The biogeochemical cycle works by plants taking nutrients, and then the levels of consumers taking in the next level down. Then when the consumers die or excrete their waste, detritus feeders come in and break down the organic matter to return it to the lithosphere as mineral nutrients.