PREFACE 



This report is published to assist coastal engineers in dune stabili- 

 zation by the establishment and development of vegetation. The work was 

 carried out under the coastal ecology research program of the U.S. Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . 



The report was prepared by E.D. Seneca, Associate Professor of Botany 

 and Soil Science; W.W. Woodhouse, Jr., Professor of Soil Science; and 

 S.W. Broome, Research Associate in Soil Science; North Carolina State 

 University, Raleigh, North Carolina, under CERC Contract No. DACW72-73- 

 C-0025. Support was received from the North Carolina Sea Grant Program, 

 Office of Sea Grant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 

 Department of Commerce, Grant No. 2-35178 and 04-3-158-40; the North 

 Carolina Coastal Research Program; and the North Carolina Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



The authors express appreciation to personnel of the Cape Hatteras 

 and Cape Lookout National Seashores, National Park Service, for permission 

 to obtain the original transplants and for cooperation during the study. 

 Special thanks are due D.M. Bryan, C.L. Campbell, Jr., and U.O. Highfill 

 for their assistance in all phases of the fieldwork, and to D.W. Woodard, 

 marine biologist, formerly of CERC, for his encouragement throughout the 

 course of this study. 



Mr. R.M. Yancey, Chief, Ecology Branch, was the CERC contract monitor 

 for the report, under the general supervision of Mr. R.P. Savage, Chief, 

 Research Division. 



Comments on the publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



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