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Sand dune stabilization is a coastal management practice designed to prevent erosion of sand dunes. Sand dunes are common features of shoreline and desert...

God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, published in 1981. The fourth in his Dune series of six novels, it was...

metres high. The highest dune in the Namib Desert however, Dune 7, is about 388 metres high. The highest and more stable dunes are partially covered with...

Grey dunes are fixed, stable sand dunes that are covered by a continuous layer of herbaceous vegetation. These dunes are typically located 50–100 meters...

The Spacing Guild is an organization in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe that possesses a monopoly on interstellar travel and banking. Guild...

halophyte, it is found in coastal stable dune grassland and coastal dune scrub, but not on shifting coastal dunes. "Matthiola tricuspidata (L.) W.T.Aiton"...

possibly extirpated from Djibouti and Togo. They are found on hills, stable dunes, and flat areas with shrubs and high grass. They also like to settle...

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes on the eastern edge of the San Luis...

were dammed up by the rapidly developing dunes. Stable native plant species are vital to the success of the dunes ecosystem. Several native plants and plant...

Sand dune ecology describes the biological and physico-chemical interactions that are a characteristic of sand dunes. Sand dune systems are excellent places...

influenced the winds shaping the dunes. Unlike the dunes closer to the lake, the southern dunes are in fact quite stable relative to other areas in the...

the time, the dunes stay fairly stable, and unlike most dunes, do not drift far. Flora and fauna The state park includes desert, dune, prairie, lake...

east of Bremer Bay (34°23'S). The habitat includes limestone heath, stable dunes, and sandy soils; usually inland from the coastline, and it also grows...

plant often successfully colonises cracks in walls or cliff faces and stable dunes. C. rotundifolia is more inclined to occupy climates that have an average...

The Cronulla sand dunes, also known officially as the Cronulla Sand Dune and Wanda Beach Coastal Landscape, are an open space, heritage-listed nature conservation...

slipface. Grain by grain, the dune moves downwind. Dunes take three general forms. Linear dunes, also called longitudinal dunes or seifs, are aligned in the...

beach. Bamburgh Dunes vary from open sandy beaches, through low ridges dominated by marram grass, to more stable grass-covered dunes. These occur as a...

underground system of roots. This root system creates stable areas of sand from which the dune can grow. Slowly other plants take root in the protected...

salt pan of Yotvata. Over time, eolian processes shaped the sands into stable dune formations. Israeli researchers at the University of Haifa, in collaboration...

Graveyard of the Atlantic. Dunes dominated by sea oats occur from the upper beach drift line back to the stable secondary dunes, where they mix with other...