Ecotones are zones of transition between two adjacent ecological systems and are characterized by a high rate of change compared to these adjacent areas.
These case studies demonstrate the degree to which the relative values of bogs, fens and swamps, with respect to biodiversity and carbon sequestration, are understood and managed using diverse protection measures, within the boundaries of new urban developments and in adjacent ecological corridors.
Losses have also arisen from extensive use of insecticide and herbicide sprays with consequent spray drift on to field margins and other adjacent ecological niches.
However, people living in and adjacent to ecological restoration areas are highly dependent on the water resources for food (Qin and others 2006; Pote and others 2006), grassland for livestock (Fan and others 2005), and other products (Fabricius and Burger 1997).
Thus, despite its recognized importance in adjacent fields of ecological research, even very basic topics in behavioral ecology remain unexplored with respect to SAC, and we could only find a handful of studies (van der Jeugd and McCleery 2002; Laiolo and Tella 2006; Duraes et al. 2007; Aarts et al. 2008; Giesselmann et al. 2008; Holdo et al. 2009), which included SAC in their research paradigm.
Here we investigated the spatial configuration of land uses within watersheds in South Korea and examined how spatial patterns of urban, agricultural, and forest land uses measured at both landscape and class levels, related to water quality in adjacent reservoirs from landscape ecological perspective.
And in fact, the first thing that I noticed when I revisited that site, coming away from the highway, was the birdsong, like a wall of birdsong, a kind of acoustic transition moving from the highway to these remodeled ecological landscapes adjacent to the river -- a dramatic transition I think.
CPAs often corresponded with locations known to have important wilderness characteristics or were adjacent to established areas of ecological, social, or cultural importance.
The eruption of the Chaitén volcano in May 2008 generated morphological and ecological disturbances in adjacent river basins, and the magnitude of these disturbances depended on the type of dominant volcanic process affecting each of them.
This context depends on the political, historical, economic and cultural environments of adjacent contexts 5 8–10 18 within an ecological view of the social determinants of health.
A multiyear drought in the western United States, coupled with a multidecade buildup in forest density and forest fuels, has led to a significant increase in unusually severe wildfires (with consequent damage to sensitive watersheds, ecological values and adjacent communities).
