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ecotone

Italian translation: Ecotono

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English term or phrase:ecotone
Italian translation:Ecotono

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13:54 Feb 13, 2009
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Science - Zoology
Additional field(s): Environment & Ecology, Fisheries
English term or phrase: ecotone
Definition from A Glossary of Marine Nature Conservation and Fisheries :
a narrow and fairly sharply defined transition zone between two or more communities (Allaby 1998); eg the different plankton communities that occur on opposite sides of fronts.

Example sentence(s):
  • Macroinvertebrate biomass was highest at an intermediate riparian ecotone complexity with an adequate supply of organic matter and incident light. Fish biomass followed the same trend, being lowest in heavily shaded areas and in open channels without riparian vegetation (range: 1-4.5 g m-2), but highest in ecotones of intermediate complexity (range: 1.6-92.8 g m-2). The cascading effect of invertebrate density depletion, which was inversely related to fish biomass, was observed seasonally. Wiley InterScience
  • The complexity and biological importance of riparian ecotones depend on the extent to which the system is self-regulating, which depends in turn on geology, physiography, climate, vegetation, human activity and the age of the system. Fish and riparian ecotones – a hypothesis
  • A common example of ecotones is estuaries—the transitional area between rivers and the oceans. The variety of species found in an estuary is much higher than in the river or in the shallow sea-water. BASICS OF ECOLOGY & LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
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Ecotono
Definition:
zona di transizione tra due sistemi ecologici, nella quale c’è competizione tra gli organismi comuni a entrambi
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ecotone


Definition from Google:
Il concetto di ecotone nacque agli inizi del 1900, grazie a studi sulla vegetazione in zone di transizione tra comunità
adiacenti.

Example sentence(s):
  • Con il termine ecotoni - parola che deriva dal greco Oikos (casa) e Tonos (tensione) - vengono definiti gli ambienti di transizione, naturali oppure antropizzati, interposti tra altri ambienti diversi fra loro. - Google  

Explanation:
Nessun ecosistema è totalmente isolato da quelli vicini: in particolare non esistono quasi mai ecosistemi "chiusi", poiché vi è sempre un certo passaggio di materia da un ambiente all'altro, attraverso gli "ecotoni", zone di confine tra l'uno e l'altro, in cui coesistono elementi appartenenti ad entrambi.
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Local time: 04:07
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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Mirra_ ciao non funziona (non porta al testo da te inserito) nessuno dei due link che hai allegato :)

Giuseppina Manfredi (X) ...davvero? In effetti ho avuto qualche difficoltà a inserirli. Ci riprovo

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Ecotono


Definition from Dizionario De Mauro:
zona di transizione tra due sistemi ecologici, nella quale c’è competizione tra gli organismi comuni a entrambi

Example sentence(s):
  • Un ecotono[1] è un ambiente di transizione tra due ecosistemi, e più in generale tra due ambienti omogenei. Gli ecotoni contengono specie proprie delle comunità confinanti e specie esclusive dell'area ecotonale stessa, e quindi possiedono un'elevata biodiversità e ricchezza. Queste sue peculiarità rendono l'ecotono indispensabile poiché proprio attraverso queste strutture avviene il collegamento fra ambienti molto diversi tra loro (boschi-prati, laghi-foreste, acque dolci-acque salate). - Wikipedia  
  • Zona di transizione fra due diverse biocenosi. Nell’ecotono si ha un graduale passaggio fra le specie caratteristiche di una biocenosi e le specie caratteristiche dell’altra. L’importanza dell’ecotono è dovuta al fatto che in esso, generalmente, si ha una maggiore biodiversità che nelle biocenosi che separa Fonte: Glossario ENI - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere  
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Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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