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Temperate & Austral Atlantic Coastal Salt Marsh Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Temperate & Austral Atlantic Coastal Salt Marsh Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup represents the herbaceous vegetation at the margins of coastal lagoons and of the wet swales in the dune-and-swale complex, distributed in the coasts of southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Communities are subject to extreme conditions characterizing this environments, such as strong winds, very low nutrient availability and salinity due to the ocean spray and periodic input of ocean water in the system. Characteristic species are <i>Baccharis juncea, Blutaparon portulacoides var. commersonii (= Iresine portulacoides), Bolboschoenus robustus, Bolboschoenus maritimus (= Scirpus maritimus), Calystegia soldanella, Carex vixdentata, Distichlis spicata, Heliotropium curassavicum, Juncus acutus ssp. leopoldii, Limonium brasiliense, Paspalum distichum, Phragmites australis</i>, and <i>Spartina</i> spp. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40993-{7C5D92EA-C133-455B-88B3-70D21ABD1E9D}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.885109 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M763
  Scientific: Temperate & Austral Atlantic Coastal Salt Marsh Macrogroup