Ramos Bruna de, Costa Monica Ferreira da
Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco 50740-550, Brazil.
Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco 50740-550, Brazil.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2023 Aug;193:115156. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115156. Epub 2023 Jun 16.
There are some tools in place that classifies and/or rank beaches according to a series of parameters. It is possible to identify a gap in the development of tools that map and describe beaches without putting the results into a classification status of good or bad. Since beaches are important from different points of views such as ecology, tourism, economy, pollution or invasive species studies and management, fisheries, estate development, protected areas, among others it is relevant to describe and understand parameters in detail. This work offers a multi-purpose and interactive beach descriptor called BeachLog. It can be used by beachgoers to keep their own records in the same way a diver uses a Diver's LogBook, managers can use the tool to support coastal management projects, long-term monitoring, and beach description baseline. Also, BeachLog can be a didactic tool to aiming to bring environmental sciences closer to technology through the use of spreadsheets and dashboards. BeachLog is based on the more frequent parameters in the literature, selected, organized, accounted for, and altered/added according to expert opinion. We created a list of 28 parameters, all of which were described in details of what is expected to be observed by the user. They were divided into 5 groups (Environmental characteristics, Services & Infrastructure, Information & Security, Planning & Management, and Descriptive). Here, we describe 14 Brazilian beaches using the BeachLog by inputting the results as parameters presence or absence (0/1) and descriptives in a table that can be transformed into an interactive dashboard for better/easier visualization. Planning & Management was absent on all 14 beaches studied, pointing out the relevance and gaps in this group. In the other groups it was possible to observe variation in the parameter occurrence, indicating that each beach is different and it is important to observe parameters individually. Beach Litter and Invasive Species parameters from the Environmental characteristics group were present in all beaches. BeachLog showed as an easy way to describe a beach and can be a tool to support diagnosis and understanding of the beach's status.
目前有一些工具可根据一系列参数对海滩进行分类和/或排名。有可能发现一种工具开发方面的差距，即这些工具能够绘制和描述海滩，但却未将结果归入好或坏的分类状态。由于海滩从生态、旅游、经济、污染或入侵物种研究与管理、渔业、房地产开发、保护区等不同角度来看都很重要，详细描述和理解参数很有必要。这项工作提供了一种名为BeachLog的多用途交互式海滩描述工具。海滩游客可以像潜水员使用潜水日志一样使用它来记录自己的情况，管理人员可以使用该工具来支持海岸管理项目、长期监测以及海滩描述基线。此外，BeachLog可以成为一种教学工具，旨在通过使用电子表格和仪表板使环境科学更贴近技术。BeachLog基于文献中更常见的参数，根据专家意见进行选择、组织、核算以及修改/添加。我们创建了一个包含28个参数的列表，所有参数都详细描述了用户预期观察到的内容。它们被分为5组（环境特征、服务与基础设施、信息与安全、规划与管理以及描述性）。在这里，我们通过将结果作为参数的存在与否（0/1）以及描述性内容输入表格，使用BeachLog描述了14个巴西海滩，该表格可以转换为交互式仪表板以便更好/更轻松地可视化。在所研究的全部14个海滩中均不存在规划与管理方面的内容，这指出了该组的相关性和差距。在其他组中，可以观察到参数出现情况的差异，这表明每个海滩都不同，单独观察参数很重要。环境特征组中的海滩垃圾和入侵物种参数在所有海滩中都存在。BeachLog显示为一种描述海滩的简便方法，并且可以成为支持诊断和理解海滩状况的工具。
