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Meiofauna as sentinels of beach ecosystems: A quantitative review of gaps and opportunities in beach meiofauna research

Meiofauna are the most abundant and diverse animal group on beaches, encompassing 20 metazoan phyla and contributing to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of beach ecosystems. Meiofauna react fast to environmental change and disturbance, and therefore, might represent a good sentinel to efficiently anticipate human-driven perturbations and the global ecological crisis in globally threatened beach ecosystems. We review the state of meiofauna research on beach ecosystems and to what extent meiofauna are included in ecological studies and ecosystem assessments of beaches. We reviewed 14,644 studies focusing on beaches available in the Web of Science, covering 58 years, and our analysis reveals that only 312 of these references addressed meiofauna in beaches. The majority of these 312 studies are from Brazil, …

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