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Human pressures on coastlines are increasing globally, particularly on urban beaches where maintenance of sand budgets and erosion control are the main focus of current shoreline management. By contrast, biological attributes are rarely considered and few, if any, ecological indicators are routinely monitored on beaches. Abundance of ghost crabs (genus Ocypode) generally responds predictably to human...
The intertidal macroinfauna of five sandy beaches with similar morphodynamics conditions was studied to compare composition and structure between beaches near urbanized centers and protected beaches located in Rio de Janeiro State. The beaches were sampled in winter 1996 and summer 1997 according to a systematic design with stratification. A total of nine species were identified with the crustaceans...
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