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List of works by Martim Melo

A Gulf of Guinea island endemic is a member of a Mediterranean-centred bird genus

scientific article published in 2009

A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Advances in Ecological Speciation: an integrative approach

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Coevolutionary patterns and diversification of avian malaria parasites in African sunbirds (Family Nectariniidae).

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DNA Barcode library of the endemic-rich avifauna of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea

scientific article published in 2023

First record of Aedes albopictus (Skuse 1894) on São tomé island

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Genetic differentiation between Príncipe Island and mainland populations of the grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), and implications for conservation

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria

scientific article published in December 2006

Host associations and evolutionary relationships of avian blood parasites from West Africa

scientific article published on 26 July 2008

Insularity effects on bird immune parameters: A comparison between island and mainland populations in West Africa

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Insularity effects on the assemblage of the blood parasite community of the birds from the Gulf of Guinea.

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Metabarcoding options to study eukaryotic endoparasites of birds

scientific article published on 02 July 2021

Multiple lines of evidence support the recognition of a very rare bird species: the Príncipe thrush

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Freshwater paths across the ocean: molecular phylogeny of the frog Ptychadena newtoni gives insights into amphibian colonization of oceanic islands

scholarly article by G. John Measey et al published 18 September 2006 in Journal of Biogeography

Patterns of bird song evolution on islands support the character release hypothesis in tropical but not in temperate latitudes

scientific article published in 2021

Phylogeographical history of the Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus , a species widely distributed across Africa

scientific article published in 2020

Rapid decline of the endemic giant land snail Archachatina bicarinata on the island of Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea

Rapid parallel evolution of aberrant traits in the diversification of the Gulf of Guinea white-eyes (Aves, Zosteropidae)

scientific article published on May 21, 2011

The Namba mountains: new hope for Afromontane forest birds in Angola

scholarly article by MICHAEL S. L. MILLS et al published 12 June 2012 in Bird Conservation International

The Príncipe Thrush Turdus xanthorhynchus: a newly split, ‘Critically Endangered’, forest flagship species

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The collection of birds from São Tomé and Príncipe at the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical of the University of Lisbon (Portugal)

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The endangered São Tomé Grosbeak Neospiza concolor is the world's largest canary

scientific article published in 2017

The importance of novel and agricultural habitats for the avifauna of an oceanic island

The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae)

scholarly article by Martin Stervander published in January 2019

The recently discovered Principe Scops-owl is highly threatened: distribution, habitat associations, and population estimates

The theory of island biogeography and soundscapes: Species diversity and the organization of acoustic communities

scientific article published in 2019

Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna

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A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus

scholarly article published in 2022