ecotone
- noun
- /ˈiːkoʊtoʊn/
- Specialized
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ecotono
- In the central Appalachians, nests are often located within 100 m of the ecotone between pure conifer and mixed northern hardwood-conifer stands.
- forest ecotone
- ecotone area
Examples
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The flower is the dominating beauty of those ecotones where fresh water meets dry land, a place where ecologies are always in tension.
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It is an undecided forest, its luxuriant ecotone having been shaped by the forces of glaciation during the Pleistocene era.
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Besides threshold temperatures, perhaps ecotone areas are subject to more growth pulses as well.
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Ecotones between communities were usually gradual and ill-defined.
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Ecotones, areas that lie between climax (mature) forests and open fields, are especially common habitats.
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Forests include several habitats, and there are substantial ecotones (if not ecosystems in their own right) between forest and savannah.
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These are adaptations to ecotones between a slope and a depression, and ancient farmers used resources from both environments to build planting surfaces behind the dams.
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Second, ecoregion boundaries rarely form abrupt edges; rather, ecotones and mosaic habitats bound them.
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My students' adoptive bioregion, the location of the main campus of Eastern Washington University, lies at the edge of three ecotones: three transitional areas between adjacent ecological communities.
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In an ecotone, species from both woodland and grassland habitats coexist and interact.
Synonyms
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An area where two natural areas meet that supports many plants and animals
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Etymology
Ecotone comes from eco- meaning 'environment' or 'home' (as in ecology) and -tone suggesting a 'place where things change'. So an ecotone is the place at the edge of two natural environments where plants and animals from both meet and mix.