Agriculture shapes the trophic niche of a bat preying on multiple pest arthropods across Europe: Evidence from DNA metabarcoding O Aizpurua, I Budinski, P Georgiakakis, S Gopalakrishnan, C Ibañez, ... Molecular ecology 27 (3), 815-825, 2018 | 143 | 2018 |
Does the niche breadth or trade‐off hypothesis explain the abundance–occupancy relationship in avian Haemosporidia? SV Drovetski, SA Aghayan, VA Mata, RJ Lopes, NA Mode, JA Harvey, ... Molecular ecology 23 (13), 3322-3329, 2014 | 119 | 2014 |
How much is enough? Effects of technical and biological replication on metabarcoding dietary analysis VA Mata, H Rebelo, F Amorim, GF McCracken, S Jarman, P Beja Molecular Ecology 28 (2), 165-175, 2019 | 114 | 2019 |
Female dietary bias towards large migratory moths in the European free-tailed bat (Tadarida teniotis) VA Mata, F Amorim, MFV Corley, GF McCracken, H Rebelo, P Beja Biology letters 12 (3), 20150988, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
Advancing the integration of multi‐marker metabarcoding data in dietary analysis of trophic generalists LP da Silva, VA Mata, PB Lopes, P Pereira, SN Jarman, RJ Lopes, P Beja Molecular Ecology Resources 19 (6), 1420-1432, 2019 | 94 | 2019 |
The Strait of Gibraltar poses an effective barrier to host-specialised but not to host-generalised lineages of avian Haemosporidia VA Mata, LP da Silva, RJ Lopes, SV Drovetski International Journal for Parasitology 45 (11), 711-719, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
Natural woodlands hold more diverse, abundant, and unique biota than novel anthropogenic forests: a multi-group assessment LP da Silva, RH Heleno, JM Costa, M Valente, VA Mata, SC Gonçalves, ... European Journal of Forest Research 138 (3), 461-472, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
Effects of a drought episode on the reproductive success of European free-tailed bats (Tadarida teniotis) F Amorim, VA Mata, P Beja, H Rebelo Mammalian Biology 80 (3), 228-236, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
Combining DNA metabarcoding and ecological networks to inform conservation biocontrol by small vertebrate predators VA Mata, LP da Silva, J Veríssimo, P Horta, H Raposeira, GF McCracken, ... Ecological Applications, 2021 | 38 | 2021 |
High‐resolution multi‐marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism LP da Silva, VA Mata, PB Lopes, RJ Lopes, P Beja Ecology and Evolution 10 (19), 10364-10373, 2020 | 33 | 2020 |
Bats use topography and nocturnal updrafts to fly high and fast MT O’Mara, F Amorim, M Scacco, GF McCracken, K Safi, V Mata, R Tomé, ... Current Biology 31 (6), 1311-1316. e4, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
What is the giant wall gecko having for dinner? Conservation genetics for guiding reserve management in Cabo Verde CJ Pinho, B Santos, VA Mata, M Seguro, MM Romeiras, RJ Lopes, ... Genes 9 (12), 599, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
Efficient assessment of nocturnal flying insect communities by combining automatic light traps and DNA metabarcoding VA Mata, S Ferreira, RM Campos, LP da Silva, J Veríssimo, MFV Corley, ... Environmental DNA, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
Ypsolopha rhinolophi sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae), a new species from Portugal and France unveiled by bats M Corley, S Ferreira, VA Mata Zootaxa 4609 (3), 565–573-565–573, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
New and interesting Portuguese Lepidoptera records from 2016 (Insecta: Lepidoptera) MFV Corley, J Rosete, AR Gonçalves, V Mata, J Nunes, P Pires SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 46 (181), 33-56, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
Intricate trophic links between threatened vertebrates confined to a small island in the Atlantic Ocean RJ Lopes, CJ Pinho, B Santos, M Seguro, VA Mata, B Egeter, ... Ecology and evolution 9 (8), 4994-5002, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
Stop harvesting olives at night--it kills millions of songbirds LP da Silva, VA Mata Nature 569 (7755), 192-193, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
COI Metabarcoding Provides Insights into the Highly Diverse Diet of a Generalist Salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Caudata: Salamandridae) AJD Marques, VA Mata, G Velo-Antón Diversity 14 (2), 89, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
Evolutionary history of the European free‐tailed bat, a tropical affinity species spanning across the Mediterranean Basin F Amorim, O Razgour, VA Mata, S Lopes, R Godinho, C Ibáñez, J Juste, ... Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58 (1), 499-518, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
Hidden in our pockets: building of a DNA barcode library unveils the first record of Myotis alcathoe for Portugal H Rebelo, S Ferreira, F Amorim, P Horta, H Raposeira, H Santos, P Beja, ... Biodiversity Data Journal 8, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |