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... The embryo dune consisted mainly of sand with a small amount of sand twitch and lyme grass visible.
Embryo dunes are easily formed and easily destroyed, unless the sand is moist and stable enough to be colonised by plants such as sand twitch and lyme grass(see fig…. ... The sand twitch and lyme grass are said to be the pioneer plants. ... Causing a noticeable change in the dunes.
Further inland when the dunes tended to be about a meter high (see fig …). They started to become dominated by Marram grass, which has succeeded the lyme grass and sand twitch. ... Marram grass is not very salt tolerant and depends on a continual supply of fresh sand for its survival.
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