Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Myster, Randall W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Applied ecology.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Ecology.; Climate change.; Life Sciences.; Terrestial Ecology.; Applied Ecology.; Climate Change.

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 c...