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  • Marine Biology
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Science

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  • Urban tourist beaches offer recreation but often neglect biodiversity conservation.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a global lockdown, creating an unprecedented opportunity to study human absence in coastal ecosystems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the ecological impact of human absence on urban tourist beaches during the COVID-19 lockdown.
  • To assess the response of bioindicators to reduced anthropogenic stressors like pollution, noise, and user density.

Main Methods:

  • Studied bioindicators across 29 urban beaches in seven Latin American countries.
  • Assessed plant and animal presence and anthropogenic stressors using a standardized protocol.
  • Compared environmental conditions before and during lockdown using multivariate non-parametric statistics.

Main Results:

  • Observed significant positive changes in biological components and a decrease in human stressors.
  • Dune vegetation increased, and ghost crab burrow densities were high on most beaches.
  • Reduced beach user frequency led to decreased litter, noise, and unnatural odors.

Conclusions:

  • Tourist beaches can recover their natural state relatively quickly after human activity ceases.
  • Proposed bioindicators can measure beach changes post-lockdown.
  • Implementing conservation strategies can make recreational beach services more environmentally friendly.