Felicita Scapini

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief synopsis of the unique physical and ecological attributes of sandy beach ecosystems and review the main anthropogenic pressures acting on the world's single largest type of open shoreline.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarise the salient features of sandy beaches as functional ecosystems in 50 ‘key statements’; these provide a succinct synopsis of the main structural and functional characteristics of these highly dynamic systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a number of critical research directions that are required to progress coastal management and conservation of sandy beach ecosystems and identify a consolidated body of ecological theory for these ecosystems.

TL;DR: Differences between juveniles and adults appeared both for activity patterns and for zonation, and under conditions of high relative humidity and rain, the migrations towards land could extend to the dune.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated, in two different coastal systems (Mediterranean and Baltic), that tourism related activities are particularly affecting the sandy beach meio- and nematofauna in the upper beach zone, the specific ecotone in which many meiofauna species from both the marine and the terrestrial environment congregate.