Overview: Includes chapters from around the world with a special focus on South American and Neotropical ecotones.While the book has chapters from around the world, there is a special focus on South American an.Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book will illustrate, their structure, size, and scope have changed considerably over the millennia, expanding and shrinking as climate and/or other driving conditions, also changed. Today, however, many of them are changing at a rate not seen f
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