Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess

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Ethnobotanical study and characterization of medicinal plants used by the population of the Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo Central Province (DR Congo)

“…This ecotone, characterized by species overlap, enhances the similarity between the two ecosystems by promoting the coexistence of species from both habitats. The ecotone mitigates some of the unfavorable environmental conditions of swamps and dryland forests, facilitating the coexistence of species (Chytrý et al, 2022;Kent et al, 1997). Furthermore, this high similarity between the swamp and dryland forests may also be linked to hydrological connectivity.…”