As sites of floating marine material deposition, sandy beaches accumulate marine litter. While research and assessment on beach litter is increasing and involves various actors (scientists, society and NGOs), there is the need to assess current and future dominant trends, directions and priorities in that research. As such, a textural co-occurrence analysis was applied to published scientific literature. Words were considered both singly and as part of compound terms related to concepts relevant to sandy beach ecology: morphodynamic state; Littoral Active Zone; indicator fauna. Litter as a compound term was also included. The main co-occurrences were found within compounds, with scarce interaction of “morphodynamic state” with the others, indicating the need for further integration of beach ecology paradigms into beached plastics studies. Three approaches are proposed to overcome the research limits highlighted: the unequivocation of terms, the consideration of adequate scales, and the attention to dynamics rather than just patterns.

作为漂浮海洋物质沉积的场所，沙滩会堆积海洋垃圾。虽然对海滩垃圾的研究和评估正在增加，并且涉及各种参与者（科学家、社会和非政府组织），但有必要评估该研究中当前和未来的主要趋势、方向和优先事项。因此，对已发表的科学文献应用了结构共现分析。单词被单独考虑，也被视为与沙滩生态相关概念相关的复合术语的一部分：形态动力学状态；滨海活动区；指示动物群。垃圾作为复合术语也包括在内。在化合物中发现了主要的共生现象，“形态动力学状态”与其他化合物之间几乎没有相互作用，这表明需要将海滩生态学范式进一步整合到海滩塑料研究中。