Abstract
This study focused on changing trends of vegetation and sand deposition in order to investigate the effect of sand deposition on coastal sand dune vegetation at the Enshu-nada coast, Shizuoka Prefecture. The vegetation of study site was classified into three community types by TWINSPAN and distributed into three zones in a direction from shoreline toward inland. The community types were divided on the basis of axis 1 using DCA ordination. There was a strong correlation between score of axis 1 and sand deposition. Therefore, it was found that the distribution of each community type was influenced by sand deposition. At the same time, it was considered that it was influenced by other environmental factors such as ocean waves and seed supply, when adding the changing trends of community types to the analysis.
