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Seashore (海浜)






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Seashore (海浜/海岸)
Land by the sea
Land adjacent to the sea
Coast (海岸/沿岸)
Land next to the sea (= the seashore)
The land near a shore
索引
[vegetation, plants]
2000
Field training on integrated environmental research 統合環境調査法実習

Seashore vegetation, or coastal vegetation (海浜植生)

Vegetation distributed near coast

Often creating zonal distribution of plant communities along distance from shoreline

There are many endemic and/or endangered species, due to its specific environments, as well as wetland (湿原), and destruction of natural coasts by human activities

Coastal forest (海岸林)

Def. forests established along coasts affected by sea factors, represented by sea breezes
A typical forest is Quercus dentata forest in Hokkaido.

Cases

Hokkaido
•The mouth of Teshio River (天塩川河口)  • Wakasanai Sand dune (稚咲内砂丘列)  • Notsuke Peninsula (野付半島)  • Ishikari Coast (石狩浜)  • Zenibako Coast (銭函海岸)  • The mouth of Osaru River (長流川河口)  • Charatsunai Coast (チャラツナイ浜)  • Sunasaki Coast (砂崎海岸)  • Higashi-kunebetsu Coast (東久根別浜)
Japan
• Kushima Island in Wakayama Prefecture (和歌山県孔島)

[ Plant list ]

Coastal plant (海浜植物)

Plants, including seagrass, distributed specifically on coasts

A few of these species establish on the volcanoes Mount Usu and Mount Koma, both of which are located nearby the Pacific Ocean.

Morphological and physiological characteristics
Leaf: Thick, shiny and/or hairy, to avoid salinity stress
Coastal plant species in Hokkaido
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