A tension zone is a transitional zone between two distinctive zones, the zones may be influenced by climatic factors, and geological variation. creating a floristic tension zone. A marine tension zone may be affected by variables such as depth, climate or salinity. In a tension zone there is the increased probability of hybridization between species of the separate zones and thus the tension zone may also be a hybrid zone.
Historically tension zones were entirely natural in origin, however human activity has altered the tension zones in a variety of areas all over the world.
References
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- Michigan State University :The Floristic Tension Zone
- Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 31 edited by J. H. S. Blaxter, Alan J. Southward p. 30
- Barton, N. H., & Hewitt, G. M. (1985). Analysis of hybrid zones. Annual review of Ecology and Systematics, 113-148.
- Global Desertification Tension Zones
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