Amassive flood tears out many trees in a wooded area. what would you expect the area to look like a year later?

The stable ecosystem had a lot of woody trees. When a massive flood came it teared out many trees in that area. This led to the destruction of an established stable ecosystem. The mechanisms of ecological succession will come into play. The natural calamity will lead to the secondary successors taking over the land. The secondary succession will involve the growth of low growing shrubs and grasses.

the darker peppered moth species were favored due to the fact that the industrial revolution had made all the nearby trees a darker color instead of white.