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Revisiting sandy beach ecological hypotheses to identify disturbance indicators: Supralittoral arthropod responses to urbanization and morphodynamics.

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Τίτλος: Revisiting sandy beach ecological hypotheses to identify disturbance indicators: Supralittoral arthropod responses to urbanization and morphodynamics.
Συγγραφείς: Costa LL; Instituto do Mar, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil., Arueira VF; Instituto de Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade (NUPEM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Ferreira KA; Laboratório de Ecologia de Sedimentos, Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Instituto Serrapilheira, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: keltony.aquino@yahoo.com.br., Soares-Gomes A; Laboratório de Ecologia de Sedimentos, Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Zalmon IR; Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Corte G; Department of Marine Biology, College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies, Texas A&M University, Galveston, United States., Barboza CAM; Instituto de Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade (NUPEM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Πηγή: Marine pollution bulletin [Mar Pollut Bull] 2026 Aug; Vol. 229, pp. 119680. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Apr 06.
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0260231 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1879-3363 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0025326X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Mar Pollut Bull Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Publication: 2003- : Oxford : Elsevier
Original Publication: London, Macmillan.
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Arthropods* , Bathing Beaches* , Environmental Monitoring* , Urbanization*, Animals ; Biodiversity ; Ecosystem
Περίληψη: The supralittoral mobile arthropod fauna on sandy beaches remains understudied, limiting knowledge of how environmental and anthropogenic drivers shape this biodiversity and the identification of reliable bioindicators. We quantified population-level responses of ten supralittoral taxa across 30 beaches in southwestern Atlantic, testing how beach morphodynamics and coastal urbanization interactively influence their abundance. Arthropods were sampled with nocturnal pitfalls, and urbanization was indexed by the Human Modification Metric (HMc). Abundance responses were taxon-specific: half the taxa were more abundant on dissipative beaches, while the remainder favored on reflective ones. At least half declined with increasing urbanization, with negative HMc effects contingent on morphodynamics, usually intensifying on dissipative beaches. These taxon-specific patterns highlight the need for local validation of candidate indicators and for morphodynamic-specific metrics in biomonitoring. Notably, the Coleoptera-Diptera, Coleoptera-Hemiptera and Amphipoda-Hemiptera ratios were sensitive to urbanization, supporting their application in monitoring protocols to guide coastal biomonitoring.
(Copyright © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: Bioindicator; Coastal ecology; Cumulative harshness hypothesis; Human impact; Insect; Monitoring
Entry Date(s): Date Created: 20260407 Date Completed: 20260613 Latest Revision: 20260624
Update Code: 20260624
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119680
PMID: 41946043
Βάση Δεδομένων: MEDLINE
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