Definition of "ecotones" [ecotones]

• Plural form of ecotone. (noun)

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• "They often cross ecotones such as tundra – taiga that are believed to be highly sensitive regions with strong feedbacks to global change."
• "Wildlife management and conservation in an Arctic under the influence of climate change must be adaptive to ecosystem-level changes that are not feasibly reversible within the human timescale, such as the northward movement of boreal ecotones into the Arctic along with the associated wildlife."
• "With the exception of some ecosystems such as wetlands, many organisms are characterized by selecting areas of vegetation gradients and ecotones."