1) Area between biomes 2) Biology terminology 3) Biome border 4) Environmental transition area 5) Environmental transition zone 6) Natural transition area 7) Plant transition zone 8) Transitional land zone
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An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local (the zone between a field and forest) or regional (the transition between forest and grassland ecosystems). An ecotone may appear on the ground as a gradual blending of the two communities across a broad...
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a transition zone between two distinct habitats that contains species from each area, as well as organisms unique to it (Morris 1992).
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a transition area of vegetation between two different plant communities, such as forest and grassland. It has some of the characteristics of each ... [3 related articles]
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transition zone between two adjoining communities
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A transition area between two distinct habitats, where the ranges of the organisms in each bordering habitat overlap, and where there are organisms unique to the transition area. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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a habitat created by the juxtaposition of distinctly different habitats; an edge habitat; a zone of transition between habitat types (Ricklefs 1970:869) or adjacent ecological systems having a set of characteristics uniquely defined by space and time scales and by the strength of the interactions (Hansen and diCastri 1990:6) (see Boundary).
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transition zone between two adjoining communities
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a habitat created by the juxtaposition of distinctly different habitats; an edge habitat; a zone of transition between habitat types (Ricklefs 1979:869) or adjacent ecological systems having a set of characteristics uniquely defined by space and time scales and by the strength of the interactions (Hansen and diCastri 1992:6) (see Boundary).
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The edge of a habitat; quite often the edge between two different habitats.
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a habitat created by the juxtaposition of distinctly different habitats; an edge habitat; a zone of transition between habitat types (Ricklefs 1979869) or adjacent ecological systems having a set of characteristics uniquely defined by space and time scales and by the strength of the interactions (Hansen and diCastri 19926) (see Boundary).
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Transition zone between two diverse communities (e.g. the tundra-boreal forest ecotone).
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An edge; a transitional area between two habitat types, or between successional stages of a single habitat type.
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Boundary zone between two unique community types.
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(Gk: oikos house; teino to stretch; ) a landscape boundary which exists between two or more adjacent communities or habitats, also known as edge.
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ecotone 1. In ecology, a transition zone between two distinct habitats that contains species from each area, as well as organisms unique to it. 2. In anthropology, such an area of transition in which certain game or vegetation overlap; a region of primary importance for human subsistence. An ecotone is a transition area between two adjacent ecolog...
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A zone of transition between two ecosystems, such as the oak savanna ecotone between the eastern deciduous forests and prairie grasslands of North America. Ecotones host a greater number of species than either adjacent ecosystem, because some species in each of the two adjacent ecosystems frequent the transition zone, and because some species prefe...
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A transitional area between two or more distinct ecological communities.
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A habitat created by the juxtaposition of distinctly different habitats; an edge habitat; or an ecological zone or boundary where two or more ecosystems meet.
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a transition area between two distinct, but adjoining, communities.
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