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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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boundary ecosystem

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Kenneth H. Mann
Emeritus Research Scientist; Director, Marine Ecology Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1980–87. Author of Ecology of Coastal Waters:...
Kenneth H. Mann,
William J. Mitsch
Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Ohio State University, Columbus. Author of Remote Sensing of Water Quality: A State of the Art Report.
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boundary ecosystem, complex of living organisms in areas where one body of water meets another, where one terrestrial ecosystem meets another, or where a body of water meets the land. See ecotone.

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