- An
ecotone is a
transitional area
between two
plant communities,
where these meet and integrate.
Examples include areas between gr****land and forest, estuaries...
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eastern North America and tend to
inhabit high
weeds or low
shrubs in
ecotonal areas. It is
categorized as a "sit-and-wait
ambush predator" that waits...
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primary host of
mature ticks) reside. Lone star
ticks can also be
found in
ecotonal areas (transition
zones between different biomes) such as
those between...
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westslope cutthroat trout,
introduced rainbow trout and
their hybrids in an
ecotonal hybrid zone
along an
elevation gradient".
Biological Journal of the Linnean...
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their interactions with human-created environments.
Animals that
exhibit ecotonal variations allow for
research concerning the
mechanisms that
maintain po****tion...
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where it
usually resides. This
snake is most
common on the
edges or in the
ecotonal areas of open to
thick woodlands, and the
borders of wetlands. It may also...
- warm-season gr****es,
which grow much taller, to the east.
Because of this
ecotonal mixing, the
number of
plant species found in mixed-gr****
prairies exceeds...
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Outside cultivated land it
prefers marginal zones of forests,
particularly ecotonal gr**** and
scrub vegetation.
Hedgehogs are most
abundant within the gardens...
- human-created, such as a
cleared agricultural field from a forest. The
ecotonal community retains characteristics of each
bordering community and often...
- O'Neill, John P. (2003). "Nitrogen vs.
phosphorus limitation across an
ecotonal gradient in a
mangrove forest". Biogeochemistry. 62 (2): 145–175. doi:10...
