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Cano-Barbacil, Carlos (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-18)
Fresh waters are among the most biodiverse ecosystems globally but, at the same time, also the most threatened. Serious threats to freshwater ecosystems are, for example, habitat alteration, invasive ...
Sabater Liesa, Laia (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-29)
Humanity has always been closely linked to rivers, benefiting from their resources while producing impacts associated with their activity.Thus, river systems have been exposed to multiple stressors, ...
Colls Lozano, Miriam (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-31)
Currently, global change is promoting the spatiotemporal occurrence of temporary streams, altering fluvial ecosystem function and structure, and the ecosystem services they provide. To effectively protect ...
Carrasco Barea, Lorena (Fecha de defensa: 2020-10-09)
Salt marshes are considered key ecosystems for climate regulation because they have a high carbon sequestration capacity. However, most studies of carbon sequestration capacity of these ecosystems have ...
Agulló Chazarra, Melania (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-16)
The conservation of a commercially exploited species is fundamental to ensure the long-term sustainability of the resource. Thus, genetic information is essential for the identification of reproductively ...
Rubio Gracia, Francesc (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-27)
This thesis aimed to assess the responses of stream biota to flow alterations, in terms of water velocity increments and reductions of discharge, and to metal pollution. The investigations performed ...
Baró Sabé, Aina (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-30)
Xylella fastidiosa is one of the most damaging phytopathogenic bacteria in the world, causing a variety of diseases with a major economic impact on agriculture and the environment. Until now, no therapeutic ...
Caballero-Huertas, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2023-05-26)
Small pelagic fish play an important ecological role mainly due to their contribution in transferring energy from low to higher trophic levels. Likewise, the capture of these species is in many cases ...
Santamaría Pérez, Jorge (Fecha de defensa: 2021-09-27)
Biological invasions have become one of the most pervasive threats to native ecosystems worldwide, causing species extinctions, disrupting the functioning of ecosystems, altering the provision of critical ...
Puig, Xavier, 1975- (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-09)
We study the effect of organic farming practices on several taxa in olive groves and vineyards. Sessile organisms show a stronger response to treatment, their diversity being higher in organic vineyards. ...