Silveira Simão, Daniela (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The present thesis provides new information about pelagic decapod crustaceans, specially so concerning the Mediterranean pasiphaeids. Remarkable differences in the pattern of distributions of the ...
López Fernández, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-10-24)
Wave storms and river inputs have been found to be the dominant forcing mechanism of sediment transport in continental shelves dominated by medium to large rivers around the world (e.g. Drake and ...
Zamora Terol, Sara (Date of defense: 2013-09-29)
Copepods have a crucial role in the pelagic marine ecosystem, for their participation in the nutrient cycling and carbon export in biogeochemical cycles, and their role as link organisms between primary ...
Galbán Malagón, Cristóbal (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
Humanity is currently using more than 200000 synthetic organic compounds in many industrial, agricultural and domestic applications. Many of these chemicals reach the environment and have a harmful ...
Horváth, Klaudia (Date of defense: 2013-05-30)
Saving water is an economic and ecological need. One way to save water is to reduce losses in irrigation networks by canal automation. The goal of canal automation is to make the right amount of water ...
Vicente de Bobes, Joana (Date of defense: 2013-11-14)
Coastal areas are very susceptible to contamination due to the interaction of marine and anthropogenic processes. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds very resistent to photolysis ...
Pascal, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2013-11-11)
Economic approaches through ecosystem services (ES) valuation are increasingly recommended by conservation organisations to face main market externalities affecting biodiversity in general and coral ...