U.S. LTER Network  Virginia Coast Reserve  near Oyster, Virginia
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Virginia Coast Reserve
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 Institutional affiliations: University of Virginia. 

Principal biome/main communities: Coastal barrier islands. Sandy intertidal; open beach; shrubthicket; mature pine forest; salt marsh; estuary. 

Research topics: Holocene barrier island geology; salt marsh ecology, geology, and hydrology; ecology/evolution of insular vertebrates; primary/secondary succession; life-form modeling of succession. 

Site Coordinates:  37.5, -74.8
Site Principal Investigators
LINDA K. BLUM BRUCE HAYDEN  JOHN H. PORTER
University of Virginia 
Department of Environmental Science 
Clark Hall 
Charlottesville, VA 22903 
804/924-0560 
lBlum@LTERnet.edu 		 University of Virginia Department of Environmental Science 
Clark Hall 
Charlottesville, VA 22903 
804/924-7761 
bHayden@LTERnet.edu		 University of Virginia 
Department of Environmental Science 
Clark Hall 
Charlottesville, VA 22903 
804/924-8999 
jPorter@LTERnet.edu
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