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Species signatures in landscapes

Plants influence geomorphology. Research on salt marshes suggests that feedbacks between geomorphic processes and life-history traits of plants produce species-specific signatures in the organization of biogeomorphic landscapes.

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Corenblit, D. Species signatures in landscapes. Nature Geosci 11, 621–622 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0193-6

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