Casso Carrasco, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Invasive species constitute a major threat to global biodiversity and cause important economic losses and ecological impacts. In the marine realm, ascidians include several aggressive invasive species, ...
Olivares Requena, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)
Marine planktonic copepods play a key ecological role in pelagic food webs. The study of their patterns of activity is fundamental in order to better understand the processes involved in the transfer ...
Buñuel Moreno, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-07-13)
The role of consumer-resource relationship is the basis of the structure and functioning of ecological communities. The traditional lens for studying such interactions have tended to omit the importance ...
Boada Garcia, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)
Macrophyte systems are globally vulnerable to overgrazing, often shifting precipitously to functionally poorer alternative stable states triggered by herbivore population outbreaks. Sea urchin herbivory ...
Fernàndez Chacón, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-10-01)
Population ecology is a scientific discipline primarily interested in the ecological processes that make the number of individuals in a population to change over space and time, and by focusing on ...
Pardo Guereño, Iker (Date of defense: 2016-01-11)
The aim of this thesis was to explore the distribution of the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional components of plant diversity in high mountains, and to show how different components of diversity ...
Villellas Ariño, Jesús (Date of defense: 2013-03-21)
Widespread species have traditionally received much less attention than rare and endemic ones. However, they are crucial in macroecological patterns and in ecosystem structure and functioning. Thus, ...
Sanz Pérez, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
Extensive farmland ecosystems are widespread and biodiversity-rich, yet they face important human pressures since the beginning of agriculture intensification, which is leading them into a severe ...
Payo Payo, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
The overarching aim of my thesis was to assess the role of environmental variability and specially of perturbations in the population dynamics of social vertebrates. Our results emphasize the need to ...
Casas i Güell, Edgar (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)
Increasing anthropogenic pressures and its effects on marine ecosystems urge enhanced knowledge and understanding of the current state of marine biodiversity. This baseline information is pivotal to ...