Domínguez Carrió, Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
Aiming to improve the conservation status of the European seas, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) was adopted in 2008, establishing a general framework for all EU countries in the field of ...
Román Moreno, Sara (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Submarine canyons are major topographic structures forming deep incisions in shelfs and continental margins around the globe. Due to their topographic characteristics, canyons influence both local ...
Tecchio, Samuele (Date of defense: 2013-02-14)
The Mediterranean Sea can be considered an excellent natural laboratory for benthic ecologists, due to its peculiar environmental conditions, its broad-scale gradients, and its deep-sea fauna. Primary ...
Metallinou, Margarita (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)
The arid areas of North Africa and Arabia cover a surface of more than 13 million square kilometers and are characterized by their extreme temperatures, diversity of desert habitats and well-adapted ...
Mecho Lausac, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)
The study of the non-crustacean invertebrates dwelling on the deep Mediterranean Sea is of interest for different marine science disciplines, being the diversity of species and their distributions largely ...
Colmenero Ginés, Ana Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
In the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, anglerfishes Lophius budegassa Spinola, 1807 and Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, 1758 are among the most valuable demersal species and support an important fishery. ...
Farré Foix, Marc (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
The study of morphology of organisms has become a widely extended scientific discipline since the beginning of the 20th century, when the scientific community began to establish direct relationships ...
Garcia Porta, Joan (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is understanding the main drivers that underlie morphological and species diversity. Ecological opportunity—access to new or previously inaccessible niches—has ...
Canepa Oneto, Antonio Jesús (Date of defense: 2014-10-03)
During recent years, jellyfish blooms have become in a passionate issue among marine scientists with a series of studies and reviews. The main concern about this blooms are related with ecosystem and ...
Baeta Alacio, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-04-29)
Bivalves living in large aggregations of individuals (reefs or beds), such as mussels, clams, cockles and some high trophic predators such as sea stars, play an essential ecological role in the structure, ...