Ávila SP, Cordeiro R, Madeira P, Silva L, Medeiros A, Rebelo AC, Melo C, Neto AI, Haroun R, Monteiro A, Rijsdijk K, Johnson ME (2017) Global change impacts on large-scale biogeographic patterns of marine organisms on Atlantic oceanic islands. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 126: 101-112.

(doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.087)

Madeira P, Steffani S, Ávila SP (2018) Non-destructive tissue sampling and the use of PCR-RFLP’s in two edible sea cucumbers from the Northeastern Atlantic, Holothuria mammata Grube, 1840 and H. sanctori Delle Chiaje, 1823 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). The European Zoological Journal, 85: 89-94.

(doi: 10.1080/24750263.2018.1438529)

Madeira P, Frias Martins AM, Ávila SP (2017) First record of the Mediterranean asteroid Sclerasterias richardi (Perrier in Milne-Edwards 1882) in the Azores Archipelago (NE Atlantic Ocean).Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences, 35: 11-18.

(Link: http://www.horta.uac.pt/intradop/images/noticias/2017/arquipelago/35/2Madeira_et_al.pdf)

Ávila SP, Cachão M, Ramalho RS, Botelho AZ, Madeira P, Rebelo AC, Cordeiro R, Melo C, Hipólito A, Ventura MA, Lipps JH (2016) The palaeontological heritage of Santa Maria Island (Azores: NE Atlantic): a re-evaluation of geosites in GeoPark Azores and their use in geotourism. Geoheritage, 8(2): 155-171.

(doi: 10.1007/s12371-015-0148-x)

Costa AC, Parente M, Botelho AZ, Monteiro J, Micael J, Gabriel D, Ávila S, Jardim N, Gillon A, Figueras D, Torres R, Cordeiro R, Madeira P, Melo C, Batista L, Raposo V (2016) PIMA - Origem, vetores de introdução e condições ambientais que facilitam a introdução de espécies não indígenas nos Açores (Relatório 2.1). CIBIO, Universidade dos Açores/ Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso. Julho, 34 pp.

Ávila SP, Cordeiro R, Rodrigues AR, Rebelo AC, Melo C, Madeira P, Pyenson ND (2015) Fossil Mysticeti from the Pleistocene of Santa Maria Island, Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), and the prevalence of fossil cetaceans on oceanic islands. Palaentologia Electronica.

(Link: http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2015/1225-oceanic-island-fossil-cetacean)

Ávila SP, Madeira P, Rebelo AC, Melo C, Hipólito A, Pombo J, Botelho AZ, Cordeiro R (2015) Phorcus sauciatus (Koch, 1845) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Archipelago of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean): the onset of a biological invasion. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 81: 516-521.

(doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyv012)

Avila SP, Melo C, Silva L, Ramalho RS, Quartau R, Hipolito A, Cordeiro R, Rebelo AC, Madeira P, Rovere A, Hearty PJ, Henriques D, da Silva CM, Martins AMD, Zazo C (2015) A review of the MIS 5e highstand deposits from Santa Maria Island (Azores, NE Atlantic): palaeobiodiversity, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography. Quaternary Science Reviews, 114: 126-148.

(doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.02.012)

Avila SP, Ramalho RS, Habermann JM, Quartau R, Kroh A, Berning B, Johnson M, Kirby MX, Zanon V, Titschack J, Goss A, Rebelo AC, Melo C, Madeira P, Cordeiro R, Meireles R, Bagaco L, Hipolito A, Uchman A, da Silva CM, Cachao M, Madeira J (2015) Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) from a volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 430: 57-73.

(doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.04.015)