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  1. The role of seabird foraging strategies on the uptake of mercury: A case study using gulls and shearwaters from the Portuguese coast

    Article • Journal of Hazardous Materials, June 2025, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  2. Calonectris shearwaters reveal a gradient of mercury contamination along the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters of the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Environmental Pollution, March 2025, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  3. Foraging in contrasting oceanographic regions impacts the fatty acid profile of two closely related pelagic seabirds

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, February 2025, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  4. Assessing the impacts of trace element contamination on the physiology and health of seabirds breeding along the western and southern coasts of Portugal

    Article • Environmental Pollution, October 2024, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  5. Microplastics ingestion and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by breeding seabirds in the east tropical Atlantic: Associations with trophic and foraging proxies (δ15N and δ13C)

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2024, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  6. Similar breeding performance despite inter-annual differences in diet composition of seabirds inhabiting a tropical environment

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, December 2023, Inter-Research Science Center

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  7. Anthropogenic debris ingestion in a tropical seabird community: Insights from taxonomy and foraging distribution

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2023, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  8. Omega-3 enriched chick diet reduced the foraging areas of breeders in two closely related shearwaters from contrasting marine environments

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2023, The Company of Biologists

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos

  9. DNA metabarcoding to assess prey overlap between tuna and seabirds in the Eastern tropical Atlantic: Implications for an ecosystem-based management

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, May 2023, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  10. High-throughput sequencing reveals prey diversity overlap between sympatric Sulids in the tropical Atlantic

    Article • Food Webs, December 2022, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos

  11. Sexual segregation in the foraging distribution, behaviour, and trophic niche of the endemic Boyd’s shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri boydi)

    Article • Marine Biology, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos

  12. Plenty of rooftops with few neighbours occupied by young breeding Yellow‐legged Gulls ( Larus michahellis ): Does this occur at the expense of their health condition?

    Article • Ibis, August 2022, Wiley

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos

  13. Conventional and Modern Approaches to Study Seabird Trophic Ecology and Diet

    Article • May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    MSc Ivo dos Santos

  14. Foraging costs drive within-colony spatial segregation in shearwaters from two contrasting environments in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Oecologia, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos

  15. Year-round at-sea distribution and trophic resources partitioning between two sympatric Sulids in the tropical Atlantic

    Article • PLOS One, June 2021, PLOS

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos

  16. Inter-annual changes in oceanic conditions drives spatial and trophic consistency of a tropical marine predator

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, December 2020, Elsevier

    MSc Ivo dos Santos, Dr. Jaime Ramos