Sbragaglia, Valerio (Date of defense: 2015-07-20)
Nephrops norvegicus is an important fishery resource for Europe. Its rhythmic burrowing behavior is strictly related to catchability. Here I studied such behavior under laboratory conditions. I investigated ...
Lana Celaya, María Aránzazu (Date of defense: 2012-02-10)
Marine aerosols have a large potential to influence the Earth¿s climate through their effects on cloud properties. The CLAW hypothesis goes further, and suggests that marine aerosols formed by the sulphur ...
Lozoya Azcárate, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)
This thesis deals with the need to move towards a holistic, truly integrated and ecosystem-based beach management that allows a sustainable use of these systems within the socio-ecological paradigm. ...
Mamouridis, Valeria (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)
Different aspects of the bathyal ecosystem have been treated with the final aim to investigate trophic cascades driven by fishery (top-down control), a phenomenon that in bathyal systems has never been ...
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 ...
Cardoso Mohedano, José Gilberto (Date of defense: 2013-03-21)
Con el objetivo de desarrollar una herramienta de gestión para la reducción del impacto de los efluentes sobre los ecosistemas receptores de una granja camaronícola en el Estero de Urías, Mazatlán, ...
Bregoli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2015-11-12)
Landslides and debris flows falling into reservoirs, natural lakes, fjords or seas can generate impulsive waves, which can be assimilated to tsunamis. This phenomenon, also known as "landslide tsunami", ...
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 ...
Ferrer Boix, Carles (Date of defense: 2011-03-23)
This Thesis deals with incision (bed degradation or general bed scouring) in rivers. More specifically it deals with the incision caused by gravel mining and by dam removal. The main goal of the ...
Serrano Samaniego, Letzi Graciela (Date of defense: 2012-07-24)
Soft-bottom polychaete assemblages inhabiting shallow waters of the northern Mediterranean Spanish coast were studied with the objective to elucidate its present structure, distribution and diversity ...