What do volcanoes, glaciers, sand dunes, storms ... as well as loss of the entire soil complex. This type of succession is often called primary succession, as the soil, as well as all ...

In Hawaii and Iceland, primary succession occurs on lava flows where new land has formed; in Canada’s Athabasca Dunes, it happens when new sand is deposited along a lakeshore; in the Andes, it occurs ...

Primary vegetation gives stability ... Figure caption, The sand dunes grow and establish a succession of plants and wildlife The sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr are very unusual because they have ...

Primary succession, the colonization of habitats ... The ecological relations of vegetation on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. Botanical Gazette 27, 95-117, 167-202, 281-308, 361-391 (1899).

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...

Sand dunes are a natural part of the habitat at Sandbanks and help prevent flooding and coastal erosion Views are being sought on the future of sand dunes at a popular tourist hotspot. Sandbanks ...

This location provided a series of challenges for the Earth from Space crew. Not least because of the desert-like sand dunes that spread out for miles beyond the horizon, but because the weather ...

How can something that is constantly shifting stand up to 750 feet tall? This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America, and the key to their extraordinary height seems to lie ...

For this, it was important that the sun came from one direction, and it’s very clear where the sun comes from because you have a lit side of the sand dune and a shadow side which means that we ...