page_title: Ecotone
hierarchical_section_title: Ecotone
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Nordufer des Hemmelsdorfer Sees mit Aalbek (Abfluss zur nahen Ostsee), Bereich im Naturschutzgebiet „Aalbeek-Niederung“.
context_page_description: 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 or regional. 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.
  The word ecotone was coined from a combination of ecology plus -tone, from the Greek tonos or tension – in other words, a place where ecologies are in tension.
context_section_description: 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.
  The word ecotone was coined from a combination of ecology plus -tone, from the Greek tonos or tension – in other words, a place where ecologies are in tension.
caption: Reed beds are a common form of lakeside ecotone. The beds tend to accumulate organic matter which is then colonised by trees, forcing the reeds further in  to the lake.
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