The phrase "an ecotone between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a transitional area or zone between two different ecological communities or environments.
Example: "The researchers studied the unique species that thrive in an ecotone between the forest and the grassland."
Alternatives: "a transition zone between" or "a boundary area between".
He operates in an ecotone between print and visual culture.
The result is an ecotone between two kinds of reality: (subjective) fiction and (objective) fact.
In the fashion world, society is an ecotone between a self and the stars.
Today there exists the cultural equivalent of an ecotone between the old and new economies, between the culture of industrial production and that of informational exchange.
Similar to the present day north Patagonian landscape, the area where Pilauco site is located had a variety of animal resources, plants and stones in an ecotone between hills, floodplains and wetlands.
In November, two nests were found partially buried in an ecotone between a Paspalum grassland and humid mature forest, with 8 and 9 eggs respectively destroyed by a six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus) that had burrows below the nests where eggshells were found.
Because the woodrat contact zone occurs at a sharp ecotone between woodland and desert scrub, offspring of N. bryanti females may benefit from traits carried by N. lepida which are better adapted to desert conditions, particularly in dry years.
The veil-like screen is an ecotone -- the overlap between adjacent ecosystems.
Since then, scientists have given these borderlands a name — "ecotones". Eugene Odum, whose classic text, Fundamentals of Ecology, helped to popularize this idea in the 1950s, described an ecotone as "an area or zone of transition between two or more diverse communities". He was thinking about the border between forest and grassland or between sea and shore.
Hybridisation occurs between all three forms across an ecotone on the eastern plateau of Inaccessible Island.
Our study has plots in the upper limits of 'Khasi hill sal' forest, between 500 and 900 m, where it forms an ecotone with subtropical pine forest which is a predominant vegetation type ranging from 1000 to 1900 m altitude.
