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 …

Ghost crabs have been widely used as a bio-indicator species of human impacts on sandy
beaches to obtain reliable biological data for management and conservation purposes …

The tufted ghost crab Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) found in the Mediterranean Sea and
the Atlantic Ocean is currently a great example that elucidates concerns within scientific and …

The close relationship between biotic systems and physical conditions determines the
classic ecological hypotheses and theories of sandy beaches. Accordingly, the Habitat …

The most conspicuous characteristic of ghost crabs (Crustacea: Ocypodidae) is the
construction of semi-permanent burrows on the sand, widely used as tools for impact …

Testing ghost crabs as indicator species usually fail to depict the mechanisms behind low
burrow densities in urban coasts, neglecting individual traits as diagnostic variables. We …

Our objective was to compare the efficiency of indirect (burrow density, size, depth and
occupation rate) and direct (emersion from burrows, tolerance distance from humans and …

Sandy beaches are land-sea transitional habitats experiencing 'multidirectional'habitat loss
due to coastal developments (eg armoring and/or conversion of natural vegetation into …

The use of biological indicators is one of the main strategies for monitoring anthropogenic
impacts on sandy beaches. However, most studies performed so far have focused only on a …

Sandy beaches are sensitive ecosystems subjected to intense and variable human
pressures. Among several potential indicators of beach environmental quality, ghost crabs …