Ribot Bermejo, Miquel (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)
Human activities have increased dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) availability and modified the relative proportion of DIN as NO3- or NH4+ in running waters. Because nitrogen (N) is an essential element ...
Santos Santos, Javier H. (Date of defense: 2019-01-17)
The thesis "Ecomorphological discrimination of vertebrate sister species with recent phylogenetic divergence using novel non-destructive morphometric methods” compares morphological evolution during ...
Serrano i Gras, Eduard (Date of defense: 2018-02-19)
Shallow-water rocky ecosystems in temperate areas are dominated by macroalgae, whilst zooxanthellate corals are extremely rare. In an era of global change, sea warming plays a crucial role in the ...
Barría Oyarzo, Claudio (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
In this thesis, the ecological role of 26 species of abundant, rare and endangered chondrichthyans present in the western Mediterranean has been studied through the study of trophic ecology and main ...
Andreu Hayles, Laia (Date of defense: 2007-10-25)
Two main purposes divided this Thesis into two parts, taking into account that the need of understanding current climatic fluctuations is still an important request of population living in the 21st ...
Ballesteros Larrotta, Tania Marcela (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The Gran Sabana (GS, Northern South America) is a humid savanna region (treeless savanna intermingled with forest patches) with a long history of vegetation changes under fire disturbances. A number of ...
Pagès Fauria, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-09-16)
Overall, this thesis aims at approaching macrophyte herbivory and community ecology from a behavioural landscape perspective. Our study system, the seascape mosaic of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows ...
Merbt, Stephanie Nikol (Date of defense: 2015-01-23)
The main goal of this PhD thesis was the study of the ammonium oxidation process in high nutrient loaded urban streams. We aimed to unveil regulating factors and driving mechanisms from the organisms ...
Piroddi, Chiara (Date of defense: 2016-11-21)
In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainability of its marine resources using an interdisciplinary approach, which combined data integration and modelling ...
Hereu Fina, Bernat (Date of defense: 2007-04-28)
The discipline of ecology is habitually divided up into a whole range of different specialities, and this thesis forms part of what is commonly known as "community ecology" (Diamond and Case 1986). To ...