What is meant by balance in a community, and what is its significance for its existence as a whole?

The biomass of organisms in an ideal succession remains constant, and the system itself is in equilibrium. If the “total respiration” is less than the gross primary production, the accumulation of organic matter will occur in the ecosystem, if it is greater, it will decrease. Both will lead to community change. With an excess of the resource, there will always be species that can master it, with a shortage of it, some of the species will become extinct. Such changes are the essence of ecological succession. The main feature of this process is that community changes always take place in the direction of an equilibrium state. Each stage of succession is a community with a predominance of certain species and life forms. They replace each other until a state of stable equilibrium occurs.