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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED: www.oed.com) defines an ecotone as A transitional area between two or more distinct ecological communities and gives the etymology of both eco and tone as deriving from ancient Greek. The OED goes on to give this first usage by Clements (1904):
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Myster, R. W. (2012, November 1). Introduction. Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland. Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3797-0_1
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