Insights from a field experiment into the dune-building capability of three U.S. Atlantic dune grass species: Ammophila breviligulata, Spartina patens, and Uniola paniculata

Elsemarie deVries Mullins1, Laura J. Moore2, Evan B Goldstein1, Theodore Lawrence Jass1, John F Bruno3 and Orencio Duran Vinent4, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, (3)UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States