Sandy beaches are ecosystems under increasing human pressure that require efficient
management and conservation strategies. Resident macroinvertebrates usually respond to …

Sand beaches are highly dynamic habitats that can experience considerable impacts from
oil spills. This review provides a synthesis of the scientific literature on major oil spills and …

Urban tourist beach ecosystems provide the essential service of recreation. These
ecosystems also support critical ecological functions where biodiversity conservation is not …

Beach and coastal dune systems are increasingly subjected to a broad range of
anthropogenic pressures that on many shorelines require significant conservation and …

Sandy beaches offer invaluable services, the overexploitation of which threatens their
survival. Management responses may be inappropriate, focussing on limited aspects of …

Sandy beaches are the most common ecosystems of coastal regions and provide direct and
indirect essential services for millions of people, such as coastal protection, fishing, tourism …

The surf zones of ocean beaches provide habitat for a diversity of fishes and are prime sites
for recreational angling and commercial net fisheries. Here, we review the global literature …

As coastal population growth accelerates, intensive management practices increasingly
alter urban shorelines, creating major conservation challenges. To evaluate key ecological …

Sandy beaches are subjected to intense stressors, which are mainly derived from the
increasing pattern of beach urbanization. These ecosystems are also a magnet for tourists …

Humans have urbanised and fragmented landscapes across the globe, with detrimental
impacts to biodiversity, habitats and food webs in most biomes. Urbanisation might also …