Coastal Dunes
Table of Contents

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