salt-spray climax
salt-spray climax
[′sȯlt ¦sprā ′klī‚maks] (ecology)
A climax community along exposed Atlantic and Gulf seacoasts composed of plants able to tolerate the harmful effects of salt picked up and carried by onshore winds from seawater.
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