Area of transition and contact between two neighbouring ecosystems, such as the edge of a forest, a reedbed, etc. (Ecotones have a richer fauna and flora than either of the two ecosystems they separate, and they sometimes repopulate the two).

Larousse: Ecotone definition (2021)

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