词汇 | ecotone |
释义 | ecotone noun[ C ] environment specializeduk /ˈiː.kəʊ.təʊn/ us /ˈiː.koʊ.toʊn/ a region where one type of habitat or natural environment meets another: 群落交错区,生态过渡带 The ecotone between forest and pasture was overgrown with lantana plants.森林与牧场之间的交错带长满了马缨丹。 the tropical/subtropical ecotone 热带/亚热带交错带 Geography: areas of land in general berm bioregion circuit corner curtilage demesne dry land ecoregion enclosure intermountain landbank neutral zone non-desert orography patch swathe sweep territoriality transect Related wordecotonal Examples of ecotoneecotone The next section, on the dynamics of the forest-tundra ecotone, also presents the results of new research. Our results agree with this assumption, and demonstrate good recruitment potential in this ecotone microhabitat. Where do fires occur along the forest-savanna ecotone? A combination of model c and d is adequate for the subset comprising all amphibian species, since it responds to both gradient and ecotone descriptors. One such ecotone comprises the forest succession from bare soil that occurs naturally on beach successions along meandering rivers. However, more commonly, an environmental gradient producing an ecotone supports an intergradation of communities that form a continuum of floristic change. It must be noted that we do not search for distinct sets of species associated with a particular ecotone. The solid line marks the sharp ecotone enclosing the woodland and the dashed square the location of the floodplain plot in which foraging parties were observed. Conifer seedling distribution and survival in an alpine treeline ecotone. Habitat heterogeneity was significantly higher in the mixed open forest/ecotone area than in the adjacent rain forest. It is most commonly found in open areas in the ecotone between longleaf pine uplands and pond pine pocosins. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Lastly, the abundance of exotic species in an ecotone can reveal the type of biome or efficiency of the two communities sharing space. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ecotone is established by elevation increase, temperature decrease at higher elevations, and rainfall (less rain shadow at higher latitudes). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The habitat is meadows and the ecotone between grass-forb meadows and mixed coniferous forest. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The band of ecotone has, as a consequence, representatives of the flora and fauna of both forest and savannah. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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