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Filtering by: Creator Green, Dale Non-Academic Affiliation Oregon State University. Sea Grant College Program Resource Type Dissertation

Coastal Dune Ecology, Geomorphology, and Ecosystem Services : How Invasive Beachgrasses, their Interactions, and Sediment Dynamics Shape U.S. Pacific Northwest Dunes

Creator:

Biel, Reuben G.

Abstract:

Biological invasions and climate change represent two preeminent threats to ecological communities and biodiversity, altering the distribution and abundance of species, disrupting existing species interactions and forming unprecedented ones, and creating novel ecological communities. Many of the most successful invasive species are also ecosystem engineers, species that physically modify the...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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