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Talitrid and Tylid crustaceans bioecology as a tool to monitor and assess sandy beaches’ ecological quality condition

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Naturais::Ciências Biológicas
datacite.subject.sdg02:Erradicar a Fome
datacite.subject.sdg08:Trabalho Digno e Crescimento Económico
datacite.subject.sdg15:Proteger a Vida Terrestre
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Sílvia C.
dc.contributor.authorAnastácio, Pedro M.
dc.contributor.authorMarques, João C.
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-16T16:39:26Z
dc.date.available2026-03-16T16:39:26Z
dc.date.issued2013-06
dc.description.abstractIn the last decades, the sharp increase of human activities on sandy beaches has introduced several detrimental impacts on these ecosystems, highlighting the importance of developing environmental quality assessments and sustainable management and protection plans for these environments. The study of key species at the population level represents an adequate and important approach to the ecosystem's ecological quality if the impacts of environmental disturbances, namely derived from human activities, are to be assessed. Talitrid and Tylid crustaceans often form abundant populations in temperate exposed sandy beaches, and might represent the bulk of the macrofaunal communities. In the present case study, the comparison of distinct Talitrid and Tylid populations on Atlantic (Portugal) and Mediterranean (Italy and Tunisia) beaches allowed to assess the adaptation of these animals on local and macro scale scenarios and evaluate the importance of bioecological studies as auxiliary tools in environmental monitoring and in the ecological quality assessment of sandy beaches. The results revealed that Talitrid and Tylid populations have a strong plasticity over geographic gradients and to local environments, presenting a high degree of variation on population ecology, namely latitudinal clines on several life history traits. Also, since the studies were performed on sandy beaches with similar degrees of exposure to wave action and low degrees of human disturbance, the present work may play a relevant role as reference knowledge in environmental monitoring studies and as an ecological quality assessment tool that might be used to evaluate the impacts of environmental disturbances on sandy beach ecosystems, namely from human origin.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThe present study was partially supported by funds provided be the research Project CLEF (PTDC/AAC-AMB/102866/2008). The research complies with the current laws in the country where it was conducted. The authors are indebted with all the colleagues at IMAR-CMA who assisted in the field and laboratory work.
dc.identifier.citationSílvia C. Gonçalves, Pedro M. Anastácio, João C. Marques, Talitrid and Tylid crustaceans bioecology as a tool to monitor and assess sandy beaches’ ecological quality condition, Ecological Indicators, Volume 29, 2013, Pages 549-557, ISSN 1470-160X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.01.035.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.01.035
dc.identifier.issn1470-160X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/15888
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X13000678?via%3Dihub
dc.relation.ispartofEcological Indicators
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectBioecology
dc.subjectEcological quality assessment tool
dc.subjectExposed sandy beaches
dc.subjectMacro scale population ecology
dc.subjectTalitrid and Tylid populations
dc.titleTalitrid and Tylid crustaceans bioecology as a tool to monitor and assess sandy beaches’ ecological quality conditioneng
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage557
oaire.citation.startPage549
oaire.citation.titleEcological Indicators
oaire.citation.volume29
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person.familyNameGonçalves
person.givenNameSílvia
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1970-0181
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