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In this thesis we studied how the changes in the climate determine the distribution, diversity and conservation of a very representative group of the Arctic avifauna, the shorebirds. In the first chapter we explored the ...
Semi-arid environments are zones where annual precipitation is less than a half of annual potential evapotranspiration, yet water availability is high enough to allow tree growth. Climate change is expected to have a major ...
Human-altered environments have expanded rapidly in the past decades and made a huge impact on living organisms. Inhabiting in such a habitat can modify different traits in animals, allowing for a better adaptation to these ...
In the discussions on climate change, the transition to renewable energy is seen as one of the biggest and most urgent steps the world can take to avoid ecological collapse. At the same time, the decentralized and abundant ...
All marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea are highly threatened by anthropogenic stressors that can alter their structure and function, especially in rocky shores. Moreover, extreme climate events are becoming more ...
Understanding the evolutionary processes underlying extant biodiversity may help us to comprehend why species richness is not equally distributed between clades. One of the main causes to explain the disparity of species ...
En esta tesis doctoral se estudian los mecanismos que las plantas pueden disponer para hacer frente al déficit hídrico reiterado, ya que en la naturaleza los ciclos repetidos de estrés son mucho más frecuentes que un solo ...
El objetivo principal de esta tesis es hacer un estudio completo del mestizaje genético de Argentina. Se pretende valorar la distribución territorial y regional del mestizaje y contrastarla con la información histórica y ...
La locomoción bípeda humana es un importante hito evolutivo. Los humanos aprendemos a caminar a temprana edad, aunque no por ello los procesos mecánicos involucrados son simples. Fuerzas y energía deben sincronizarse creando ...
Varved lake sediments also known as annually laminated sediments, are natural paleoenvironmental archives containing high-resolution proxy data and precise chronologies. They are one of the few natural archives that can ...
Movement is a fundamental component of behaviour and thus both are inextricably linked. Variation in movement patterns usually reflects different behaviours, including those most glaring, such as foraging, dispersal, ...
Animal movement is a key biological process for the maintenance of ecosystem services, and a major concern for the conservation of biodiversity. The aim of movement ecology is to understand the causes and consequences of ...
Movement is a widespread characteristic in the animal kingdom —occurring at many spatiotemporal scales— with consequences at an individual, population, species, and even ecosystem level. It is a very diverse character, ...
[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 vulnerability of agriculture ...
[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 and Agriculture ...
[eng] Gelatinous zooplankton has been studied in the Western Mediterranean for a long time, however, its spatial structure has been mainly addressed in coastal areas, during spring and summer periods. Hence, information ...
Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary approach, from ...
The main objectives of this dissertation were (a) to determine the effects of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization on the growth of microalgal groups of periphyton and phytoplankton, and (b) to evaluate some ...
[cat] Atenent als fets de que la classificació europea s’ha desenvolupat, principalment, dins les fronteres de cadascun dels països portant a notables diferències dels corresponents tipus de vegetació -fins i tot entre ...
[spa] El objetivo general de esta tesis ha sido estudiar el comportamiento solitario y social de un grupo de ocho delfines mulares (Tursiops truncatus) en cautividad (Zoo de Barcelona), durante dos periodos reproductivos, ...
