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 …

Abstract Modern approaches to Ecosystem-Based Management and sustainable use of
marine resources must account for the myriad of pressures (interspecies, human and …

Local trawler fisheries operate around the seabird colonies of the Ebro Delta and Majorca.
The use made of the discards produced by this fishery by scavenging breeding seabirds …

Capsule The gulls adjust their diet composition and diversity according to refuse dump
accessibility. Aims To examine the influence of the accessibility of open-air refuse dumps on …

Neonicotinoids are one of the most diffusely used classes of pesticides whose level of
danger toward non-target invertebrate and vertebrate species has raised increasing concern …

Exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from both human and veterinary
sources is an increasing threat to wildlife welfare and conservation. Notwithstanding …

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 …

This study presents a comparative analysis of protected and exploited Mediterranean Sea
food webs using standardized ecological models of two ecosystems: the Central-North …

Sex-specific foraging behaviour may lead to differences between the sexes in both resource
acquisition and exposure to threats and thereby contribute to sex-specific reproductive roles …

The diets of two potential competitor species, Audouin's Larus audouinii and yellow-legged
gulls Larus cachinnans, were examined while they bred at the Chafarinas Islands during …