Simple Summary Small island environments can drive rapid changes in animal traits that
provide an advantage for individuals attempting to capitalize on scarce resources. One such …

DNA metabarcoding is widely used for diet characterization and is becoming increasingly
important for biodiversity conservation, allowing the understanding of trophic networks and …

Living on islands entails numerous challenges for animals, among which population density
approaching the carrying capacity of trophic resources stands out. To overcome this …

In the Azores, complaints about grape loss to birds have become recurrent. Although
winegrowers frequently blame the endemic Azores Woodpigeon Columba palumbus …

Competitive dietary and morphological divergence among co-occurring species are
fundamental aspects of ecological communities, particularly on islands. Cabo Verde (~ 570 …

Identifying animal foraging habitat can help prioritise areas for conservation and enable
better predictions of how populations respond to environmental change. Recent reductions …

Within vertebrates, reptiles are good island colonisers, often leading to considerable levels
of intraspecific diversity among populations inhabiting different islands/archipelagos. This …

Arboreality can provide lizards with refuge from predators and a resource-rich environment,
yet this behaviour is rarely observed in European lacertid species. The Madeiran Wall Lizard …