Oceans have been considered as an unlimited supply of goods and services, but resource
extraction and waste disposal became ubiquitous and have been damaging the health of …

Santa Luzia, an uninhabited island in the archipelago of Cabo Verde, serves as a natural
laboratory and important nesting site for loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta. The island …

The Small Island Developing State, Cabo Verde, is one of the most important marine
biodiverse hotspots in the North Atlantic. One of its national conservation strategies has …

Phenological divergence between conspecific populations breeding sympatrically is
increasingly recognized as an important evolutionary process that may lead to allochronic …

Studies on sex-specific segregation in foraging behaviour and trophic niche have been
focussed on large and dimorphic seabirds, with less information on small monomorphic …

In this study we found that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) were omnipresent in a
tropical seabird community comprising diverse ecological guilds and distinct foraging and …

Overfishing has been drastically changing food webs in marine ecosystems, and it is pivotal
to quantify these changes at the ecosystem level. This is especially important for ecosystems …

In the oligotrophic tropical marine environment resources are usually more patchily
distributed and less abundant to top predators. Thus, spatial and trophic competition can …

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

BirdLife International thanks all co-authors, artists, photographers, and other contributors for
their valuable input to the production of this handbook. French texts were translated by …