Velasquez Vacca, Adriana (Date of defense: 2023-03-21)
[eng] Hawaiian green turtles Chelonia mydas were heavily exploited for their fat, meat and eggs by the Polynesians in the pre-contact era and continued to be commercially exploited until 1978 when they ...
Buchaillot, Maria Luisa (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
[eng] Personal food security means that they have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and quality food. On the other hand, there are three main causes of food insecurity: 1. the high ...
Mosquera Vintimilla, Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)
[eng] High-mountain tropical lakes in the South American continent are located in the upper part of the Andes range in the equatorial zone (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia), altitudinally, ...
Ubach Permanyer, Andreu (Date of defense: 2023-01-10)
[eng] The current context of global change is causing many threats to biodiversity worldwide, and the profound and rapid transformations of the environment have led to a severe insect decline. Because ...
Guardiola Ripoll, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
[eng] Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting around 24 million people worldwide. While we begin to disentangle the biological actors implicated in the origin of the disorder, the precise ...
Badia Boher, Jaume Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] In this thesis, we took advantage of recent advances in the degree of sophistication and flexibility of population models to study the population dynamics and conservation of long-lived species. ...
Hamdane, Yassine (Date of defense: 2023-09-14)
[eng] The main driving force behind crop research is to ensure food security. Climate change, which affects most crops and increases the risk of disease and famine, is addressed in this notion. The Food ...
Gort Esteve, Araceli (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
[eng] Deer populations are increasing in recent times. One of the main causes is the abandonment of agriculture and extensive livestock farming. This thesis focuses on expanding our knowledge about the ...
Rezzouk, Fatima Zahra (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] Wheat is a major staple food worldwide. Its cultural and economic importance is mainly highlighted in the Mediterranean region, among other regions of the world. However, wheat production is ...
Cuesta Porta, Victor (Date of defense: 2023-11-13)
[eng] The oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) are a group of specialized endophytophagous microhymenopterans that induce galls on Fagaceae trees, principally oaks (Quercus L.). The systematics ...