1. Widespread introduced species dominate the urban tree assemblage on the endemic‐rich tropical island of São Tomé
Lena Strauß, Ricardo F. de Lima, Timothy R. Baker, Laura Benitez Bosco, Gilles Dauby, Olivier Lachenaud, Angela Lima, Dilson Madre Deus, Maria do Céu Madureira, Estevão Soares, Pascoal Sousa, Tariq Stévart, Martin Dallimer
Ecology and Evolution  vol: 14  issue: 9  year: 2024  
doi: 10.1002/ece3.70153

2. Food and Medicine by What Name? Ethnobotanical and Linguistic Diversity of Taro in Africa
Ilaria M. Grimaldi, Tinde R. van Andel
Economic Botany  vol: 72  issue: 2  first page: 217  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1007/s12231-018-9413-7

3. Biogeography by revelation: investigating a world shaped by miracles
Michael Heads
Australian Systematic Botany  vol: 27  issue: 4  first page: 282  year: 2014  
doi: 10.1071/SB14038

4. Africa and Arabia encompass a much greater species diversity in the Achyranthes aspera aggregate (Amaranthaceae, achyranthoid clade): Evidence from morphological and chorological data
Alexander P. Sukhorukov, Maria Kushunina, Maya V. Nilova, Cláudia Baider, Alexander N. Sennikov
PhytoKeys  vol: 250  first page: 21  year: 2024  
doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.250.136139

5. The recently discovered Principe Scops-owl is highly threatened: distribution, habitat associations, and population estimates
Bárbara Freitas, Martim Melo, Ceciliano do Bom Jesus, Sátiro R. da Costa, Yodiney dos Santos, Angelica Crottini, Ricardo Faustino de Lima
Bird Conservation International  vol: 33  year: 2023  
doi: 10.1017/S0959270922000429

6. Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism
Julian Schrader, Patrick Weigelt, Lirong Cai, Mark Westoby, José María Fernández-Palacios, Francisco J. Cabezas, Gregory M. Plunkett, Tom A. Ranker, Kostas A. Triantis, Panayiotis Trigas, Yasuhiro Kubota, Holger Kreft
Nature  vol: 634  issue: 8035  first page: 868  year: 2024  
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08036-1

7. Occurrence-based diversity estimation reveals macroecological and conservation knowledge gaps for global woody plants
Buntarou Kusumoto, Anne Chao, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Jens-Christian Svenning, Takayuki Shiono, Yasuhiro Kubota
Science Advances  vol: 9  issue: 40  year: 2023  
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh9719

8. A nomenclatural review of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) of mainland Africa
José María Cardiel, Iris Montero‐Muñoz, Roberto Gamarra, Emma Ortúñez, Pablo Muñoz‐Rodríguez
TAXON  vol: 74  issue: 5  first page: 1217  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1002/tax.13388

9. Lectotypification and characterization of Discoclaoxylon pubescens (Euphorbiaceae) from Annobón Island (Equatorial Guinea)
Patricia Barberá, Mauricio Velayos, Carlos Aedo
Nordic Journal of Botany  vol: 32  issue: 1  first page: 55  year: 2014  
doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2012.01801.x

10. A rare enigmatic sedge rediscovered: Principina grandis (Cyperaceae) newly recorded from São Tomé
A. Mesterházy, J. Browning
Kew Bulletin  vol: 69  issue: 3  year: 2014  
doi: 10.1007/s12225-014-9532-y

11. International collaboration between collections‐based institutes for halting biodiversity loss and unlocking the useful properties of plants and fungi
Timothy R. Pearce, Alexandre Antonelli, Francis Q. Brearley, Charlotte Couch, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Susana C. Gonçalves, Sékou Magassouba, Marli P. Morim, Gregory M. Mueller, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Matija Obreza, Suzanne Sharrock, Monique S. J. Simmonds, Beri Bonglim Tambam, Timothy M. A. Utteridge, Elinor Breman
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET  vol: 2  issue: 5  first page: 515  year: 2020  
doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10149

12. Land‐use intensification promotes non‐native species in a tropical island bird assemblage
F. C. Soares, M. Panisi, H. Sampaio, E. Soares, A. Santana, G. M. Buchanan, A. I. Leal, J. M. Palmeirim, R. F. de Lima
Animal Conservation  vol: 23  issue: 5  first page: 573  year: 2020  
doi: 10.1111/acv.12568

13. Biodiversity and land‐use change: understanding the complex responses of an endemic‐rich bird assemblage
Ricardo Faustino de Lima, Martin Dallimer, Philip W. Atkinson, Jos Barlow, Graeme Cumming
Diversity and Distributions  vol: 19  issue: 4  first page: 411  year: 2013  
doi: 10.1111/ddi.12015

14. Trapping method and quota observance are pivotal to population stability in a harvested parrot
Simon Valle, Nigel J. Collar, W. Edwin Harris, Stuart J. Marsden
Biological Conservation  vol: 217  first page: 428  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.11.001

15. Can Management Improve the Value of Shade Plantations for the Endemic Species of São Tomé Island?
Ricardo F. de Lima, Leonel Viegas, Nelson Solé, Estevão Soares, Martin Dallimer, Philip W. Atkinson, Jos Barlow
Biotropica  vol: 46  issue: 2  first page: 238  year: 2014  
doi: 10.1111/btp.12092

16. “Doce inferno do engenho”
M. Dores Cruz, Nazaré Ceita, Natália Umbelina
Vestígios - Revista Latino-Americana de Arqueologia Histórica  vol: 19  issue: 1  first page: 5  year: 2025  
doi: 10.31239/nkxt9p89

17. Screening and identification of neuroprotective compounds relevant to Alzheimer׳s disease from medicinal plants of S. Tomé e Príncipe
Antonio Currais, Chandramouli Chiruta, Marie Goujon-Svrzic, Gustavo Costa, Tânia Santos, Maria Teresa Batista, Jorge Paiva, Maria do Céu Madureira, Pamela Maher
Journal of Ethnopharmacology  vol: 155  issue: 1  first page: 830  year: 2014  
doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.06.046

18. São Tomé Island Endemic Treefrogs (Hyperolius spp.) and Land-Use Intensification: A Tale of Hope and Caution
Lena Strauß, Ricardo Faustino de Lima, Frank Riesbeck, Mark-Oliver Rödel
Tropical Conservation Science  vol: 11  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1177/1940082918776434

19. Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island
Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Ana Catarina Araújo‐Fernandes, Ana Sofia Castro‐Fernandes, Patrícia Guedes, Yodiney dos Santos, João C. Alves, Vanessa Mata, Natalie Yoh, Ricardo Rocha
Conservation Science and Practice  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1111/csp2.70143

20. Bryophyte Biogeography
J. Patiño, A. Vanderpoorten
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences  vol: 37  issue: 2-3  first page: 175  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1080/07352689.2018.1482444

21. Population Genetics of the São Tomé Caecilian (Gymnophiona: Dermophiidae: Schistometopum thomense) Reveals Strong Geographic Structuring
Ricka E. Stoelting, G. John Measey, Robert C. Drewes, William J. Etges
PLoS ONE  vol: 9  issue: 8  first page: e104628  year: 2014  
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104628

22. Synopsis of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) of West Tropical Africa, including Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe
José M. Cardiel, Iris Montero Muñoz
Plant Systematics and Evolution  vol: 304  issue: 1  first page: 93  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1007/s00606-017-1453-4

23. A new species ofHemidactylus(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Príncipe Island, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa with comments on the African-Atlantic clade ofHemidactylusgeckos
Elizabeth C. Miller, Anna B. Sellas, Robert C. Drewes
African Journal of Herpetology  vol: 61  issue: 1  first page: 40  year: 2012  
doi: 10.1080/21564574.2012.666680

24. Can REDD+ Help the Conservation of Restricted-Range Island Species? Insights from the Endemism Hotspot of São Tomé
Ricardo Faustino de Lima, Fábio Olmos, Martin Dallimer, Philip W. Atkinson, Jos Barlow, Anna Traveset
PLoS ONE  vol: 8  issue: 9  first page: e74148  year: 2013  
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074148

25. A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction
T. Stévart, G. Dauby, P. P. Lowry, A. Blach-Overgaard, V. Droissart, D. J. Harris, B. A. Mackinder, G. E. Schatz, B. Sonké, M. S. M. Sosef, J.-C. Svenning, J. J. Wieringa, T. L. P. Couvreur
Science Advances  vol: 5  issue: 11  year: 2019  
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax9444

26. The big four of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names
David Schellenberger Costa, Gerhard Boehnisch, Martin Freiberg, Rafaël Govaerts, Matthias Grenié, Michael Hassler, Jens Kattge, Alexandra N. Muellner‐Riehl, Blanca M. Rojas Andrés, Marten Winter, Mark Watson, Alexander Zizka, Christian Wirth
New Phytologist  vol: 240  issue: 4  first page: 1687  year: 2023  
doi: 10.1111/nph.18961

27. Révision taxonomique du genre Santiria (Burseraceae) en Afrique tropicale
Davy U. Ikabanga, K. Guillaume Koffi, Jean Michel Onana, Bertrand M'batchi, Olivier J. Hardy, Tariq Stévart
Candollea  vol: 74  issue: 2  first page: 115  year: 2019  
doi: 10.15553/c2019v742a1

28. New data on the butterflies of São Tomé e Príncipe: description of one new subspecies from Príncipe, notes, and reference to two faunistic novelties from São Tomé (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
L. F. Mendes, A. Bivar de Sousa, S. Vasconcelos
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología  vol: 46  issue: 181  first page: 65  year: 2018  
doi: 10.57065/shilap.836

29. A revision of Xylopia L. (Annonaceae): the species of Tropical Africa
David M. Johnson, Nancy A. Murray
PhytoKeys  vol: 97  first page: 1  year: 2018  
doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.97.20975

30. Spatial and seasonal variation in abundance within an insular grey parrot population
Simon Valle, Nigel J. Collar, W. Edwin Harris, Stuart J. Marsden
African Journal of Ecology  vol: 55  issue: 4  first page: 433  year: 2017  
doi: 10.1111/aje.12367

31. Diversification of the orchid genus Tridactyle: Origin of endemism on the oceanic islands of São Tomé & Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea
Tania D'haijère, Esra Kaymak, Arthur F. Boom, Olivier J. Hardy, Tariq Stévart, Patrick Mardulyn
Journal of Biogeography  vol: 49  issue: 3  first page: 523  year: 2022  
doi: 10.1111/jbi.14324

32. 14,000 years of climatic and anthropogenic change in the Afromontane forest of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea
Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Ricardo Faustino de Lima, Laura Benitez Bosco, Rosa Delia Castillo Armas, Nichola Strandberg, Tariq Stévart, Lea de Nascimento, José María Fernández-Palacios, Sandra Nogué
Quaternary Science Reviews  vol: 322  first page: 108381  year: 2023  
doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108381

33. Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa
Marc S. M. Sosef, Gilles Dauby, Anne Blach-Overgaard, Xander van der Burgt, Luís Catarino, Theo Damen, Vincent Deblauwe, Steven Dessein, John Dransfield, Vincent Droissart, Maria Cristina Duarte, Henry Engledow, Geoffrey Fadeur, Rui Figueira, Roy E. Gereau, Olivier J. Hardy, David J. Harris, Janneke de Heij, Steven Janssens, Yannick Klomberg, Alexandra C. Ley, Barbara A. Mackinder, Pierre Meerts, Jeike L. van de Poel, Bonaventure Sonké, Tariq Stévart, Piet Stoffelen, Jens-Christian Svenning, Pierre Sepulchre, Rainer Zaiss, Jan J. Wieringa, Thomas L. P. Couvreur
BMC Biology  vol: 15  issue: 1  year: 2017  
doi: 10.1186/s12915-017-0356-8

34. A species‐level phylogenetic framework and infrageneric classification for the genusMaesa(Primulaceae)
Pirada Sumanon, Henrik Balslev, Timothy M.A. Utteridge, Wolf L. Eiserhardt
TAXON  vol: 72  issue: 4  first page: 791  year: 2023  
doi: 10.1002/tax.12991

35. Atlantic oceanic islands and archipelagos: Physical structures, plant diversity, and affinities of the bryofloras
Denise Pinheiro da Costa, Cecília Sérgio
Biodiversity Data Journal  vol: 13  year: 2025  
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e141577

36. The upsizing of the São Tomé seed dispersal network by introduced animals
Ruben H. Heleno, Filipa Mendes, Ana P. Coelho, Jaime A. Ramos, Jorge M. Palmeirim, Ana Rainho, Ricardo F. de Lima
Oikos  vol: 2022  issue: 2  year: 2022  
doi: 10.1111/oik.08279

37. DNA Barcode library of the endemic-rich avifauna of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea
Martim Melo, Rita Covas, Ricardo Lima, Octávio Veiga da Horta, Ceciliano do Bom Jesus, Martim Barros da Veiga, Seduney Samba, Ricardo Fonseca, Gabriel Cabinda, Lionel Viegas, Teresa Silva, Vanessa Mata, Pedro Beja, Sónia Ferreira
Biodiversity Data Journal  vol: 11  year: 2023  
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e110428