What is an Ecotone?

Coming from the biology sciences, an ecotone is a region of transition between two different biological communities. Usually in every specific ecotone, species from both ecosystems live and it is in this gap in between where the richness and biological interest grows.

In the ecotone diverse organisms coming from different areas interact, sharing a same space. The ecotone can host more diverse species than the ones in the homogenous areas. For these reasons, diversity and density of species in the ecotone is higher than in the communities that border them. So the ecotone represents the area of the maximum interaction between neighboring ecosystems.

So, in this subject we will be working on a Material Atlas that is going to be public and accessible to everyone through this interface: a blog.