Broadleaf evergreens, such as tanoak and madrone, quickly colonize disturbed areas, making it difficult to regenerate conifer forest growth.

As a pioneer species of willow, it quickly colonizes poor soils.

Species like lodgepole pine and sequoia are adapted to fire; new plants and animals quickly colonize a burnt zone.

Pioneer species such as loblolly pine, yellow poplar, and sweetgum quickly colonized these abandoned farm fields.

It can quickly colonize both cultivated and uncultivated areas and it has become naturalized in eastern China.

Verticillium produce conidia on conidiophores and once conidia are released in the xylem, they can quickly colonize the plant.

The tree grows very rapidly and can quickly colonize disturbed areas in wet environments.

Elsewhere, its ability to quickly colonize disturbed soil has allowed it to become an invasive species that takes over croplands and pasturelands.

At birth, the infants' intestines are free of bacteria, but bacteria starts to colonize within the intestine quickly after birth.

As with most weeds, the plant quickly colonizes disturbed ground, like roadsides, edges of woods, nurseries, fallow fields, cleared woodlands and ditches.