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Along the coasts of the Maltese Islands the sandy beaches are not very spread. Currently, some examples can be observed only in bays or small coves, where the sandy deposits tend to form small dunes. These surfaces usually are colonized by a paucispecific psammophilous vegetation, represented by perennial communities of the Ammophilion australis. Sometimes, also annual halo-nitrophilous communities, belonging to the Cakiletea maritimae, occur in stands near the shore. Unfortunately, many of these dune environments for a long time have been destroyed by urbanization and tourist activities, remaining only a few sites, some of which are luckily designated as natural protected areas.
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Brullo, S., Brullo, C., Cambria, S., Giusso del Galdo, G. (2020). Psammophilous Vegetation. In: The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands . Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34525-9_8
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