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  • Microclimate: The climate of a specific place that differs from the surrounding climate due to landscape features and vegetation
  • Foredune: The dune closest to the beach, which is the most recently formed and only partially stabilized by grasses
  • Backdune: A dune further away from the beach, which is older and has been stabilized by grasses and trees
  • Interdune: The valley formed between the foredune and backdune
  • Blowout: A landscape feature created when vegetation is removed from a dune and sand has blown away
  • Swale: (or panne) An intermittent wetland, fed by groundwater and runoff, which forms in low areas such as blowouts or interdunal troughs

 

 

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