Romera Castillo, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-10-07)
Oceans store 685 Pg of organic carbon of which 662 Pg are in a dissolved form. The diversity of compounds that make up the dissolved organic matter (DOM) pool and the low concentration of each compound ...
Navarro Cuenca, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-06-18)
Field biomonitoring based on molecular biomarkers detects early warning signals of stress suffered by organisms exposed to contamination. The lower part of the Ebro River basin has a long pollution ...
Alomar Domínguez, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-12-03)
The main objective of this study is to improve wind wave forecasting in the NW Mediterranean Sea while focusing on the characteristic sharp gradients of the wind and wave conditions. This work was ...
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 ...
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 ...
López Fernández, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-10-24)
Wave storms and river inputs have been found to be the dominant forcing mechanism of sediment transport in continental shelves dominated by medium to large rivers around the world (e.g. Drake and ...
Zamora Terol, Sara (Date of defense: 2013-09-29)
Copepods have a crucial role in the pelagic marine ecosystem, for their participation in the nutrient cycling and carbon export in biogeochemical cycles, and their role as link organisms between primary ...
Castellanos Ossa, Paola (Date of defense: 2012-11-12)
During the last two decades the scientific community has recognised the importance of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the upwelling regions on the Earth's climate. This recognition has opened new questions ...
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 ...