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 ...
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 ...