Flower-speckled sand dunes have returned to South Carlsbad State Beach thanks to a successful restoration started a little ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...

Only a small group of plants are capable of colonising sand dunes (Hesp 1991). Nevertheless, in contrast to most desert dunes, vegetation usually plays an important role both in the initial ...

Invasive plants are to be removed from sand dunes to protect the coastline. The ecological work by Natural England is to be carried out using large machinery on the dunes at Bamburgh ...

Today a great deal is known about dunes: how wind launches individual grains of sand and piles them into parabolas, ridges and other distinctive shapes; how plants steady dunes, and how waves ...

In systems that initially lack mycorrhizae, such as sand dunes, only non-mycorrhizal pioneer plants are able to colonize. As mycorrhizal diversity increases in the soil, later successional plants ...

That case resulted in a rule to maintain the ban pending a permanent solution to protect the Pierson's milk vetch, a threatened Algodones Dunes plant. However, against the opposition of environmental ...