Trophic flows, ecosystem structure and fishing impacts in the South Catalan Sea, Northwestern Mediterranean

M Coll, I Palomera, S Tudela, F Sardà - Journal of Marine Systems, 2006 - Elsevier
An exploited ecosystem from the continental shelf and upper slope of the Northwestern
Mediterranean Sea was described by means of an Ecopath mass-balance model with the …

An ecological model of the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea: analysis of ecosystem structure and fishing impacts

M Coll, A Santojanni, I Palomera, S Tudela… - Journal of Marine …, 2007 - Elsevier
A trophic mass-balance model was developed to characterise the food web structure and
functioning of the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea and to quantify the ecosystem impacts …

[PDF][PDF] The use of otoliths and vertebrae in the identification and size-estimation of fish in predator-prey studies

JP Granadeiro, MA Silva - Cybium, 2000 - researchgate.net
Relationships between the size of otoliths and vertebrae, and body length are presented for
eleven teleost species of the north-east Atlantic. Relationships between teleost size and …

Foraging plasticity in a pelagic seabird species along a marine productivity gradient

VH Paiva, P Geraldes, I Ramírez, A Meirinho… - Marine Ecology …, 2010 - int-res.com
The foraging plasticity in a pelagic seabird species, Cory's shearwater Calonectris
diomedea, was compared during incubation and chick-rearing among 7 different breeding …

High prevalence of parental delivery of plastic debris in Cory's shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea)

A Rodríguez, B Rodríguez, MN Carrasco - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2012 - Elsevier
Plastic ingestion by adult Procellariiformes has been widely recorded, but few studies have
evaluated intergenerational transfer. We assessed the prevalence of plastic particles, as …

An holistic ecological analysis of the diet of Cory's shearwaters using prey morphological characters and DNA barcoding

H Alonso, JP Granadeiro, S Waap, J Xavier… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of the dietary choices and trophic niches of organisms is the key to
understanding their roles in ecosystems. In seabird diet studies, prey identification is a …

Comparison of ecosystem modelling and isotopic approach as ecological tools to investigate food webs in the NW Mediterranean Sea

J Navarro, M Coll, M Louzao, I Palomera… - Journal of Experimental …, 2011 - Elsevier
Understanding how marine ecosystems are structured and how they function is a scientific
challenge. Nowadays, to learn about ecosystem trophic dynamics ecologists use two …

Dual-foraging of Cory's shearwaters in the Azores: feeding locations, behaviour at sea and implications for food provisioning of chicks

MC Magalhães, RS Santos, KC Hamer - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 - int-res.com
Many procellariiform (tube-nosed) seabirds employ a dual-foraging strategy involving
repeated alternation of short and long foraging trips. For species breeding at sites around …

Effects of local fisheries and ocean productivity on the northeastern Ionian Sea ecosystem

C Piroddi, B Giovanni, C Villy - Ecological modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
To better understand the effects of fisheries and ocean productivity on the northeastern
Ionian Sea we constructed an Ecopath with Ecosim model with 22 functional groups. Data …

Relationship between mercury levels and diet in Azores seabirds

LR Monteiro, JP Granadeiro, RW Furness - Marine Ecology Progress …, 1998 - int-res.com
Mercury concentrations were determined in feather and food samples from adults of 6
seabird species from the Azores archipelago. Mean concentrations ranged from 54 to 432 …