Table of Contents
Peter Slattery
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
P.O. Box 450, Moss Landing, CA 95039
I. Climatic and Geologic Setting of Coastal Dune Communities
II. Coastal Dune Community
A. Physical Features
B. Vegetation Patterns
C. Selected native plant species
D. Selected non-native plant species
1. Sea rocket
2. Sea fig and Hottentot fig
3. Marram (European dune grass)
E. Animals of the coastal dune community
F. Community transitions
1. Seaward
2. To marshes, streams and rivers
3. Inland: foredune, central dune scrub and foredune grassland
G. Coastal closed-cone forest and coastal scrub
III. Human Impacts
IV. Selected Coastal Dune Community Resources
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