Originally widespread, it has suffered severely from competition with introduced marram grass and animal grazing and now has only a patchy distribution.
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Bamburgh Dunes vary from open sandy beaches, through low ridges dominated by marram grass, to more stable grass-covered dunes.
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It is deeply rooted in the substrate for feeding on the roots of marram grass and for stability in its sand dune habitat.
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Seagram Co . Ltd . named Ellen R . Marram chief executive officer of its Tropicana Beverage unit, formerly called Seagram Beverage Group.
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Marram grass has a rolled leaf that creates a localized environment of water vapour potential within the leaf, and helps to prevent water loss.
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The plants on these dunes can withstand the slightly alkaline sand an example of the plants would be marram grass " spinifex ."
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Seagram said Marram's added title and the name change of the business reflect its importance to the Montreal-based beverage and entertainment company.
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The purchase of the Dole business will also expand the influence of Ms . Marram, who was hired with much fanfare from RJR Nabisco last year.
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Ms . Marram's strategy at Tropicana has been to target the not-from-concentrate segment, the highest margin pure-juice business.
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Ms . Marram, 50, was named chief executive of Tropicana Beverage in July after serving as its president since 1993, when she joined Seagram.
