The band of ecotone has, as a consequence, representatives of the flora and fauna of both forest and savannah.
The habitat is meadows and the ecotone between grass-forb meadows and mixed coniferous forest.
The ecotone is established by elevation increase, temperature decrease at higher elevations, and rainfall (less rain shadow at higher latitudes).
Lastly, the abundance of exotic species in an ecotone can reveal the type of biome or efficiency of the two communities sharing space.
It is most commonly found in open areas in the ecotone between longleaf pine uplands and pond pine pocosins.
Habitat heterogeneity was significantly higher in the mixed open forest/ecotone area than in the adjacent rain forest.
Conifer seedling distribution and survival in an alpine treeline 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.
