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NY Heritage: Maritime beach | Ecological Communities of New York, 2nd Ed.
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Name: NY Heritage: Maritime beach Reference: Ecological Communities of New York, 2nd Ed. Description: A community with extremely sparse vegetation that occurs on unstable sand, gravel, or cobble ocean shores above mean high tide, where the shore is modified by storm waves and wind erosion. The upper margin of a maritime beach often grades into the base of a primary maritime dune, or other maritime community, such as maritime shrubland or one of the maritime forests. Characteristic species include beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata), sea-rocket (Cakile edentula ssp. edentula), seaside atriplex (Atriplex patula), seabeach atriplex (A. arenaria), seabeach sandwort (Honkenya peploides), salsola (Salsola kali), seaside spurge (Chamaesyce polygonifolia), seabeach knotweed (Polygonum glaucum), and seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus) Maritime beaches and dunes provide important nesting ground for birds such as piping plover (Charadrius melodus), least tern (Sterna antillarum), common tern (S. hirundo), and roseate tern (S. dougallii).  Accession Code: VB.CC.28535.NYHERITAGEMARIT Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 6
	Party Perspective according to: Howard, Timothy Perspective from: 03-Dec-2004 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: NY Heritage: TERRESTRIAL SYSTEM This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Other: NY Heritage: Maritime beach