Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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Vegetation

The formation of vegetated coastal ecosystems requires landscape forming plants to generate sufficiently strong self-promoting feedbacks. They protect shoreline areas from erosion and with their deep root systems they help to anchor dunes to their foundation.

Builders on the beach

Builders on the beach

UU-NIOZ project | Testing the hypothesis that dune grasses self-organize to rapidly form high freshwater-storing dunes to survive flooding and drought...

Small steps, giant leaps

Small steps, giant leaps

VIDI project | Building coastal landscapes with spatially organizing plants. How clonally expanding grasses build landscapes through biophysical interactions.