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What does ecotone mean?

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Noun
  1. a transition area between two adjacent ecological communities (ecosystems).
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In the Pompidou's darkened rooms, another ecotone becomes visible: the overlap between objective and subjective realms.
An ecotone may exist along a broad belt or in a small pocket, such as a forest clearing, where two local communities blend together.
Optimal habitat consists of open medium to tall grasslands fringed with an ecotone of woody vegetation.
Soil resource partitioning may have contributed to the stable coexistence of grasses and trees that form savannahs at this ecotone.
Golden-winged Warbler territories usually included a shrubby field with patches of herbs and shrubs, a field-forest ecotone and adjacent forest.
Site connectivity and riparian ecotone functions must therefore be restored.

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