Overall our selection provides a diverse palette of leaf textures, bloom times, fruits, and fall color. Emphasis is on broad leaf evergreens suitable for screens and hedges. Now, however, there is an appreciation that abiotic and biotic components move across heterogeneous landscapes and that the boundaries between these units take on important control functions in this dynamic spatial system. Ecotone Plants is a nursery focused on providing vigorous, adaptable plants for landscape professionals and residents in the San Juan Islands region. Much previous ecological research has dealt with processes within relatively homogeneous landscape units or even the collective characteristics of a composite landscape. Spatial variability of ecotones has resulted in problematic modelling, analysis and visualization of these landscape forms. Along with this concern for change in various regions has come the need to understand the role of boundaries between these regions and between landscape elements. Shape of Ecotones - Landscape Ecology - Ecology Center The morphology of the borders is of great importance for the functioning of the ecotones and for the. The effects these changes may have on the environment have lead governments and sCientists to make predictions as to how soon changes might occur, where, and with what impact for large and small regions of the Earth. We live in a changing world one in which there is much concern and discussion about the topics of global change, loss of biodiversity, and increasing threats to the sustainability of ecosystems.

Ecotones landscape