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Artemisia campestris - Festuca rubra / Racomitrium canescens Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Artemisia campestris - Festuca rubra / Racomitrium canescens Grassland Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This community is confined to sparsely vegetated coastal sand dunes and spits with well-drained nutrient-poor soils in the Georgia Basin. Occurrences are associated with larger accretional sites, including sand spits (Goose Spit and Cordova Spit), dunes (Island View Beach area and Savary Island), or sand islands (Sandy Island). It is not found on beaches with a narrow band of <i>Leymus mollis ssp. mollis</i> or <i>Cakile edentula</i> vegetation. Large coastal sand features are very rare in coastal British Columbia because of uncommon physiographic requirements. Adequate sand supply (e.g., glacial deposits of coarse and fine sand (Quadra Sand)) and active coastal transport and deposition (e.g., shallow coastal areas) are required to sustain this element in the long term. This association encompasses a range of successional stages of vegetation development on coastal sand dunes, including very sparsely vegetated young or disturbed dunes (e.g., active sand movement from wind), to stable or semi-stable dunes with large amounts of bryophyte cover. These changes occur on a continuum and are appropriately encompassed by a single plant association. Natural disturbance may be important for maintaining this community in the long term. The development of new sand areas as older areas are colonized and stabilized sustains the overall assemblage of plant species and associations in coastal dunes and spits.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:32252-{D8AF2BFD-4E44-4EA9-9554-7BA23AF7D889} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 04-Nov-2008 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Poa macrantha - Leymus mollis - Festuca rubra Sand Dune Grassland Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.683562 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL003370   Translated: Field Sagewort - Red Fescue / Silver Moss Grassland   Scientific: Artemisia campestris - Festuca rubra / Racomitrium canescens Grassland (convergence) and Synonyms: (similar) Artemisia campestris - Festuca rubra / Racomitrium canescens Herbaceous Vegetation