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Marine beach and dune plant communities

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Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities

Abstract

The biology of beach and dune plants along North American shores has received scientific attention for nearly 100 years. Cowles founded his dynamic view of plant communities on examples of succession in coastal dunes (albeit Great Lakes dunes; Cowles, 1891). Within 20 years, Harshberger (1900,1902, 1903, 1908, 1914) had contributed many field observations from Atlantic and Gulf coasts and Cooper (1936) had begun a long-term study of Pacific coast strand plant distribution.

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Barbour, M.G., De Jong, T.M., Pavlik, B.M. (1985). Marine beach and dune plant communities. In: Chabot, B.F., Mooney, H.A. (eds) Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4830-3_14

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