Coastal strand is a plant community of flowering plants that form along the shore in loose sand just above the high tide line.
Many plants that grow in this area are endemic to the strand. The community has low species diversity because so few plants can tolerate the harsh conditions of high winds, battering salt spray, and extreme high temperatures in the summer. Plants must also be adapted to sandy saline soils, with extremely low nutrient loads, and low water holding capacity.
Plants that grow along the coast are very tolerant of the winds and salt and sand loaded ocean spray. Many species are succulent, storing salty water in their leaves. The leaves are often light colored or grey green to reflect sunlight and reduce desiccation. Hairy leaves may reduce evapotranspiration, may help gather moisture from the air, and may reflect a small portion of incoming solar radiation thereby reducing the plants internal temperature. They are often very low in height with prostrate stems and spread by rooting at the nodes and may have deep tap roots, both rooting systems helping to anchor the shifting sands as the plants colonize the beach above high tide.
Coastalstrand is a plant community of flowering plants that form along the shore in loose sand just above the high tide line. Many plants that grow in...
genus name combines the Ancient Greek aktē meaning "river bank" or "coastalstrand", -philos meaning "-loving" and ornis meaning "bird". The species is...
endemic to the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion, in coastal sage scrub, coastalstrand, chaparral, and dry foothill communities. It is found from...
Hawaiian Electronic Library, University of Hawaii Press. NPS. "Kapahulu CoastalStrand" (PDF). Haleakalā National Park Plant Communities. Retrieved January...
The name combines the Ancient Greek aktē meaning "river bank" or "coastalstrand", -philos meaning "-loving" and ornis meaning "bird". The genus contains...
and Abbotts Lagoon. The other communities identified by Evens are the coastalstrand, dominated by European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria), ice plant (Carprobrotus...
Miranda in the Firth of Thames is one of the most significant Holocene coastalstrand plains in the world and an important stopover point in the godwit flight...
island consists mostly of savanna and evergreen forest, with areas of coastalstrand and hillside scrub. Raiatea has more savanna than the other Society...
2500 millimeters. There are typhoons most years. The plant grows on coastalstrands, including oceanside cliffs, just beyond the high-tide mark. It receives...
growing up to 10 meters tall. It is most often found in shoreline and coastalstrand vegetation, and occasionally in lowland and secondary forest, generally...
dunefields near the shore, some bare of vegetation, and others stabilized by coastalstrand vegetation, shrubland, and mallee woodland. Near Eucla and the Western...
Marvin Braude Bike Trail (also known as the Beach Bike Path, Coastal Bike Trail, The Strand, or the South Bay Bicycle Trail) is a 22-mile (35 km) paved...
wormwoods. Artemisia pycnocephala is native to Oregon's and California's coastalstrand plant community where it enjoys rocky and sandy soil. According to The...
Spain and Portugal), between Bilbao, A Coruña and Porto. In this the coastalstrand, the average temperature varies from 10–14 °C (50–57 °F) during the...
additional 5-acre section (2.0 ha) of beach north of the pier into a native coastalstrand habitat. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment...
Trebarwith Strand (Cornish: Trebervedh Sian; locally sometimes shortened to The Strand) is a section of coastline located near the coastal settlement...
The Grand Strand is an arc of beach land on the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina, United States, extending more than 60 miles (97 km) from Little River...
is a fruit tree native to the Atlantic Coast of Brazil. It grows in coastalstrand, just above the high tide mark, and is widely cultivated as an ornamental...
Jamaica, the Bahama mockingbird inhabits a variety of biomes including coastalstrand, semi-arid scrub, open woodland, and plantations. In Jamaica it inhabits...
issues like coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, and coastal flooding. Other coastal issues, such as marine pollution, marine debris, coastal development...
fleabane, the name referring to a coastal city in Texas. The species grows along the coastal plain and coastalstrand of the Gulf of Mexico in the states...
rainshadow of these ranges, typically desert. Coastalstrand (same in Munz) Coastal prairie (same in Munz) Coastal salt marsh (same in Munz) Chaparral (hard...
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