One of the most important ecotonal communities associated with tropical hardwood hammocks is the hammock edge where it interfaces with pine rockland, buttonwood wetlands, marl prairie, or other communities.
Because of this ecotonal mixing, the number of plant species found in mixed-grass prairies exceeds that in other prairie types.
Outside cultivated land it prefers marginal zones of forests, particularly ecotonal grass and scrub vegetation.
Stable nitrogen isotopes in fish: literature synthesis on the influence of ecotonal coupling.
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic evidence for ecotonal coupling between boreal forests and fishes.
Carbon-13 conundrums: limitations and cautions in the use of stable isotope analysis in stream ecotonal research.
Ecotonal areas are the transition zones between ecological systems where native plant diversity is often greatest.
This species is not confined to the shallow parts of the ecotonal zone.
