Pioneer organism
Organism that populates a region after an event kills off most life in that area / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A pioneer organism, also called a disaster taxon, is an organism that colonizes a previously empty area first, or one that repopulates vacant niches after a natural disaster, mass extinction or any other catastrophic event that wipes out most life of the prior biome.[1] A group of such organisms capable of continued procreation among themselves are a pioneer species.
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