Table 9. Mean cover per transect for four dune grasses at Drum 

 Inlet, North Carolina, 1973. 



Treatment 



Plot 





Mean cover 







No. 



per 



transect 



(percent) 





a' 



P^ 



S^ 



U^ 



NJ-327 American beachgrass 



1 



2.18 



0.02 



0.03 



0.05 





12 



4.01 



0.04 



0.05 



0.26 



Cape American beachgrass 



2 



2.51 





0.03 







14 



3.55 





0.06 



0.10 



Hatteras beachgrass 



3 



2.63 







0.16 





13 



2.61 



0.07 



0.07 



0.30 



Bitter panicum (Hatteras) 



4 





1.74 



<0.01 



0.02 





8 





1.30 





0.37 



Hatteras beachgrass plus 



5 



1.39 



0.60 





0.14 



Bitter panicum (Hatteras) 



11 



1.19 



1.16 





1.17 



Bitter panicum (Hatteras) plus 



6 



0.03 



0.73 





1.40 



Sea oats (Drum Inlet) 



10 



0.14 



1.30 



0.08 



1.30 



Hatteras beachgrass plus 



7 



0.76 



0.32 



0.04 



0.48 



Bitter panicum (Hatteras) plus 



9 



0.81 



0.38 





0.81 



Sea oats (Drum Inlet) 













1. Based on nine transects per plot per treatment, n = 126, 



2. Ammophila bveviligulata (American beachgrass). 



3. Panioim amarum (bitter panicum) . 



4. Spartina patens (saltmeadow cordgrass) . 



5. Uniota paniculata (sea oats). 



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