Sentences with word «ecotone»

When «Fear the Walking Dead» returns for Season 3, our families are brought together in the vibrant and violent ecotone of the U.S. - Mexico border.
The northern part of the North American boreal forest corresponds to the forest - tundra ecotone where trees and forests reach their northernmost distribution limits (Rowe 1972; Timoney et al. 1992; Payette et al. 2001).
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Treelines - A highly responsive ecotone: how does climate change affect them?
Similar connections between fire, vegetation and climate are known for other large ecotones like the prairie - forest border in Central North America (Grimm 1983, 1984; Umbanhowar 2004).
Continental steppe grasslands will expand at the expense of boreal forest where soil moisture along the arid timberline ecotone declines further (87), amplified through concurrent increases in the frequency of fires.
At the southern ecotone (see Glossary) with continental grasslands, a contraction of boreal forest is projected due to increased impacts of drought, insects and fires (Bachelet et al., 2001; Scholze et al., 2006), together with a lower rate of sapling survival (Hogg and Schwarz, 1997).
Similarly, gradual productivity increases at the boreal - tundra ecotone are facilitated by long distance dispersal into areas disturbed by tundra fire and thermokarsting.
An ecotone is always a place that is fragile, unstable, shifting, fluid, risky, filled with danger and yet, at the same time Continue Reading»
An ecotone is where two ecospheres come together — where they meet and merge into one another.
Where the plains meet the mountains, where the current meets the tide — that is an ecotone.
The Mississippi River flowing into the Gulf of Mexico — that is an ecotone.
I wonder if you know it — ecotone?
The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree - line or timberline.
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Tawni Shuler's exhibit «ecotone» is now at the Woodbury Art Museum through March 12.
ecotone transition area between adjacent ecological communities (e.g., between forests and grasslands), usually involving competition between organisms common to both
The ecotones provide opportunities for deploying techniques and technologies by which we can mimic natural — that is predevelopment — downstream water quality and flows.
Urban environments are ecosystems — that can be made interesting, species rich and attractive in their own right — and at the intersection with natural systems there are ecotones that are transitions to natural systems.
This rather common spatial pattern of tundra and forest communities across the ecotone is the result of long - term interactions between fire disturbance and climate (Payette & Gagnon 1985; Asselin & Payette 2006).
Left arrow indicates initial deforestation and inception of the boreal forest - tundra ecotone and right arrow corresponds to start - up of rapid deforestation after AD 1550.
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