marram grass

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marram grass:

see beach grassbeach grass
or marram grass
, any species of the genus Ammophila, perennial grasses used to control the shifting of sand dunes, thereby protecting sandy coastal areas. The European beach grass (A.
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marram grass

any of several grasses of the genus Ammophila, esp A. arenaria, that grow on sandy shores and can withstand drying: often planted to stabilize sand dunes
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In grasses, the CP contents attained in Ammophila arenaria (14.00 %) and Phragmites australis (13.09 %).
EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND IN VITRO DRY AND ORGANIC MATTER DIGESTIBILITY OF SOME FORAGE PLANT SPECIES DERIVED FROM EGYPTIAN RANGELANDS
Effects of Ammophila arenaria on sand dune arthropod communities.
Occurrence of amphibians in northern California coastal dune drainages
Festuca sabulosa, Gypsophila paniculata and Lathyrus maritimus (together with Corynephorus canescens and Ammophila arenaria grow on the top of the western PBD and make a very stable composition of vegetation, which traps the sand on the western part of the PBD and does not allow it to transfer onto the eastern slope.
VEGETATION IMPACT ON THE DUNE STABILITY AND FORMATION ON THE LITHUANIAN COAST OF THE BALTIC SEA
(2000) presented what appear to be rather minor differences in topsoil water repellency amongst several types of grassland, shrubland, and woodland of the primary and secondary dunes (the foredune vegetation of Ammophila arenaria assuming, as mentioned before, an outlier position).
Soil water repellency under dry and wet antecedent weather conditions for selected land-cover types in the coastal zone of central Portugal
The most noteworthy dune species include the marram grasses Ammophila arenaria (on European coasts) and A.
2 Life on coastlines with tides
To reduce nest predation rates, managers have: (1) exclosed nests from large mammal and avian predators (Hardy and Colwell 2008); (2) restored nesting habitat by removing invasive European Beach Grass (Ammophila arenaria) (Muir and Colwell 2010); (3) spread oyster shells to increase egg and chick crypsis (USBLM 2010); and (4) killed predators (Neuman and others 2004).
Experimental evidence that scare tactics and effigies reduce corvid occurrence
Roedd cnwd o foresg (Ammophila arenaria; marram) yn tyfu o boptu'r llwybr a dail ir ar y dulys (Smyrnium olusatrum; alexanders).
Rhoscolyn i Gymyran; BYD NATUR
Rapid colonization by marram grass (Ammophila arenaria), during the accretion phase beginning in 1994, has encouraged foredune height growth and subsequent stabilization.
The role of long-term landscape photography as a tool in dune management/Ilgalaikis krastovaizdzio fotografavimas kaip priemone numatant kopu valdyma
The plants that are likely to colonize these dunes include typically cord grass (Spartina versicolor) and marram grass (Ammophila arenaria); not only do they help dune formation, but also ensure their conservation.
3 Life on tideless coastlines

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