Early Successional Microhabitats Allow the Persistence of Endangered Plants in Coastal Sand Dunes
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Early Successional Microhabitats Allow the Persistence of Endangered Plants in Coastal Sand Dunes
Many species are adapted to disturbance and occur within dynamic, mosaic landscapes that contain early and late successional microhabitats. Human modification of disturbance regimes alters the availability of microhabitats and may affect the viability of species in these ecosystems. Because restoring historical disturbance regimes is typically expensive and requires action at large spatial scal...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119567