Tese de doutoramento em Biociências, na especialidade de Ecologia, apresentada ao Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de CoimbraThe impacts of human-based environmental change on the global oceans have been increasing exponentially in the last decades. The main environmental change factors affecting marine ecosystems are those related to climate change and fishery activities, whose impacts are widely distributed and have profound effects in the marine biodiversity. Top-predators, like seabirds, experience the effects of those changes in many different levels, from the individual – affecting behaviour, movement, body condition and breeding success – up to the community level – species shifts...