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Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major
terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the
chapters in this book will illustrate, their structure, size, and
scope have changed considerably over the millennia, expanding and
shrinking as climate and/or other driving conditions, also changed.
Today, however, many of them are changing at a rate not seen for a
long time, perhaps largely due to climate change and other
human-induced factors. Indeed ecotones are more sensitive to
climate change than the biomes on either side, and thus may serve
as critical early indicators of future climate change. As ecotones
change, they also redefine the limits of the biomes on either side
by altering their distributions of species because, in addition to
their own endemic species, any ecotone will also have species from
both adjoining biomes. Consequently, they may also be places of
high levels of species interaction, serving as active evolutionary
laboratories, which generate new species that then migrate back
into adjacent biomes. Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland
explores how these ecotones have changed in the past, how they are
changing today, and how they are likely to change in the future.
The book includes chapters from around the world with a special
focus on South American and Neotropical ecotones.
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