Pascual Barrera, Alina E. (Date of defense: 2013-06-26)
Actualmente, la problemática que enfrentan las zonas costeras del Mediterráneo en general y la Comunidad Valenciana en particular, es la generación de grandes cantidades de agua residual urbana, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rosell-Fieschi, Miquel (Date of defense: 2014-07-03)
The velocity fields inferred from the trajectories of Argo floats have proven to be a valuable tool for observing the major ocean currents. The velocity fields can be used to examine statistical properties ...
Cerralbo Peñarroya, Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
Using both observations and modelling tools, it is investigated the main hydrodynamic response mechanisms of a microtidal and shallow bay in the Mediterranean Sea: Alfacs Bay. Main objectives are ...
Pascal, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2013-11-11)
Economic approaches through ecosystem services (ES) valuation are increasingly recommended by conservation organisations to face main market externalities affecting biodiversity in general and coral ...