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Uchman A,Quintino V, Rodrigues AV, Johnson ME, Melo CR, Cordeiro R, Ramalho RS, Ávil SP (2017) TThe trace fossil Diopatrichnus santamariensis nov. isp. – a shell armored tube from Pliocene sediments of Santa Maria Island, Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean). Geobios, 50: 459-469.

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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.

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Ávila SP, Cordeiro R, Haroun R, Wirtz P (2016) Comment on "Island biogeography: patterns of marine shallow-water organisms" by Hachich et al., Journal of Biogeography (2015). Journal of Biogeography, 43(12): 2515-2516.

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Avila SP, Melo C, Berning B, Cordeiro R, Landau B, da Silva CM (2016) Persististrombus coronatus (Mollusca: Strombidae) in the lower Pliocene of Santa Maria Island (Azores, NE Atlantic): Paleoecology, paleoclimatology and paleobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 441(4): 912-923.

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Uchman A, Johnson ME, Rebelo AC, Melo AC, Cordeiro R, Ramalho RS, Ávilla SP (2016) Vertically-oriented trace fossil Macaronichnus segregatis from Neogene of Santa Maria Island (Azores; NE Atlantic) records vertical fluctuations of the coastal groundwater mixing zone on a small oceanic island. Geobios.

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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.

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