Ecotone : ecotone and edge effect - for environment ecology

 Ecotone

🎯 An ecotone is a transition area between two biological communities,where two communities meet and integrate.

🎯 It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local (the zone between a field and forest) or regional (the transition between forest and grassland ecosystems).

🎯 An ecotone may appear on the ground as a gradual blending of the two communities across a broad area, or it may manifest itself as a sharp boundary line.

🎯 For e.g. the mangrove forests represent an ecotone between marine and terrestrial ecosystem. Other examples are grassland (between forest and desert), estuary (between fresh water and salt water) and riverbank or marshland (between dry and wet).