How to pronounce “successional” in English

And that's, I think, the great contribution of my first PhD work was that I was very much focused on how-- and so was the forest industry-- on howweedy plants, which were considered weedy plants-- actually, they were early successional tree species like aspen and birch and cottonwood-- were viewedas weeds because they would sort of block the light getting down to the seedlings that they were trying to grow, these conifers that would provide