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THE vegetation of a sand dune is unique not only because of the rapidity of the changes that it exhibits but also because, from the manner of dune development, the phases present an arrangement in space corresponding to their sequence in time, so that the plant succession can be ascer tained with certainty.
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SALISBURY, E. Plants of the Sand Dune and why they Grow There*. Nature 141, 814–818 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141814a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141814a0