Tui De Roy / Lava Cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus) endemic pioneering species growing only on young lava flows, Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road, and building showing colonization, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road and building showing colonization, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Maxus Road, originally an oil road and buildings showing colonization of rainforest, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Adrian Davies / Solidified lava with Aeonium sp. colonizing, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, July.

Kevin Schafer / Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), single bird re-colonizing Midway Atoll, Hawaii

Tui De Roy / Sand dunes stabilized by colonizing vegetation, Baja California, Mexico