Iván F. Rodil

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed hypotheses concerning the ecological effects of beach habitat loss associated with coastal armoring and examined the results on paired armored and unarmored segments of narrow bluff-backed beaches in southern California.

TL;DR: The results indicate that talitrid amphipod populations can have a significant impact on Drift macrophyte processing and fate and that the quantity and composition of drift macrophytes could, in turn, limit populations of beach consumers.

TL;DR: In this article, the number of species, abundance and biomass of macroinfauna along a gradient of intermediate beach types and exposure range were analyzed along the north coast of Spain during September 1999, and the results suggest that different characteristics of benthic macrofauna communities in intermediate beaches can be affected in different ways by the physical processes involved in beach morphology.

TL;DR: Experimental manipulation of two species of brown seaweeds, i.e. artificial wrack patches made up of the native macroalgae Saccorhiza polyschides and the invasive species Sargassum muticum, is used to test hypotheses about influences on macrofaunal assemblages inhabiting the drift line and supratidal levels of exposed beaches and pointed out that different types of wrack deposits were not used uniformly by invertebrates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the number of intertidal species ranged from 9 to 31, their density being between 31 and 618 individuals m−2, while individuals per linear metre (m−1) ranged from 4962 to 17 2215.