Distribution and partitioning of organic pollutants and effects in coastal birds 

    Vicente de Bobes, Joana (Date of defense: 2013-11-14)

    Coastal areas are very susceptible to contamination due to the interaction of marine and anthropogenic processes. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds very resistent to photolysis and chemical and ...

    Distribution and population biology of pelagic decapod crustaceans of the western Mediterranean 

    Silveira Simão, Daniela (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)

    The present thesis provides new information about pelagic decapod crustaceans, specially so concerning the Mediterranean pasiphaeids. Remarkable differences in the pattern of distributions of the pasiphaeids were observed ...

    Dynamics of oligotrophic pelagic environments:North western Mediterranean sea and subtropical north Atlantic 

    Bahamon Rivera, Nixon (Date of defense: 2002-05-24)

    The response of phytoplankton to various ecological forcings was examined in the upper waters of the NW Mediterranean (MED) and the subtropical North Atlantic (NA) from field observations, analysis of historical data sets ...

    Feeding ecology and community streucture of mesopelagic fishes in the Western Mediterranean = Ecología trófica y estructura de la comunidad de peces mesopelágicos del Mediterráneo Occidental 

    Bernal Bajo, Ainhoa (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)

    En esta tesis doctoral se ha estudiado la relación de las poblaciones de peces mesopelágicos (Myctophiformes y Stomiiformes) con el medio pelágico, analizando el posible efecto de factores físicos y biológicos en su ecología ...

    Influència de les comunitats bentòniques sobre el sediment al litoral del delta de l'ebre 

    Soriano Zaragoza, Sergi (Date of defense: 2004-12-06)

    La interacció dels organismes bentònics amb el sediment es relaciona, bàsicament, amb els processos de bioturbació i els de rugositat de fons. Els principals factors implicats en la mobilització de sediment a la plataforma ...

    Interactive effects of vertical mixing, solar radiation and microbial activity on oceanic dimethylated sulfur cycling 

    Galí Tàpias, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)

    The production and subsequent emission of volatile compounds is one of the numerous ways by which microbial plankton participate in the cycling of elements and influence the Earth's climate. Dimethylsulfide (DMS), produced ...

    Trophic cascade modelling in bathyal ecosystems 

    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 studied. This was ...