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Fourteen different plant communities were delimited. Stratified random sam- 
pling produced frequency and biomass data for 12 communities and frequency and 
density data for the 2 shrub communities. Biomass data were obtained using 
the clip quadrat method. The distinctiveness of the foredune, sandgrass, 
sandgrass-buttonweed, sound-side disturbed-shrub, and sound-side shrub communi- 
ties was borne out by the ordination techniques. The interdunal marsh, low 
dune grass, planted bitter panicum-planted American beachgrass, and roadside 
disturbed communities showed a strong similarity in all three ordination 
perspectives. The most visible change that had occurred since Levy's (1976) 
original study was the homogeneous mixing and expansion of the planted bitter 
panicum and planted American beachgrass communities. Floristic collections 
made throughout the study revealed a flora of approximately 180 species and 
151 genera, representing 58 families. 
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