Soria Extremera, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
Temporary rivers (TRs) are dynamic systems that typically shift between flowing, disconnected-pools and dry phases, and represent nearly 50% of the current global river network. Despite TRs support ...
Pérez-Llorca, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
Mediterranean species have to be in constant acclimation to seasonal environmental changes, including variations in water availability, air temperature and solar radiation. Due to global warming, these ...
Soler Vilaplana, Patricia M. (Date of defense: 2021-04-09)
El objetivo general de esta tesis ha sido evaluar los efectos de determinados contaminantes sobre la reproducción, el estrés fisiológico y el comportamiento dos especies de ciprínidos autóctonas del NE ...
Sanabria Fernández, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
The degradation of natural diversity results in the erosion of key systemic properties such as resilience, or the capacity to recover from disturbances. Resilience loss leads to an increase in the ...
Cera Rull, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
Gypsophile species are edaphic endemics of gypsum soils, and they are considered specialists of this stressful substrate. Gypsum endemics from different families and regions of the world tend to show a ...
Gómez Gras, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest and most pervasive threats that our natural heritage will have to face in the coming decades. Together with other anthropogenic pressures such as ...
Khan, Hares (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Inland waters are relevant components of the global carbon cycle acting as hot spots for biogeochemical processes by which carbon is stored, transformed, and outgassed to the atmosphere. Therefore, less ...