Agulló Chazarra, Melania (Date of defense: 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 ...
Tuulaikhuu, Baigal-Amar (Date of defense: 2016-06-10)
The main aims of this thesis are: i) to evaluate arsenic toxicity in two major, interacting components of the freshwater ecosystem, biofilm and fish, to provide information on environmentally realistic ...
Pou i Rovira, Quim (Date of defense: 2004-07-23)
L'Estany de Banyoles, sistema peculiar tant des del punt de vista de la seva formació geològica com de les seves característiques limnològiques, conté actualment una comunitat de peixos profundament ...
Carmona Catot, Gerard (Date of defense: 2013-12-09)
The eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) is one of the most widely distributed and invasive inland fish. It is known that it has not been established in northern Europe or upstream of rivers, where ...
García-Berthou, Emili (Date of defense: 1994-11-03)
Before 1910, the fish assemblage of Banyoles Lake (Catalonia, Spain) consisted of: eel (Anguilla anguilla), Mediterranean barbel (Barbus meridionalis), freshwater blenny (Bennius fluviatilis), ...
Rubio Gracia, Francesc (Date of defense: 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 ...
Corcoll i Cornet, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2012-02-20)
Metal pollution in rivers is in great concern with human activities in the fluvial watershed. This thesis aims to investigate the potential use of chl-a fluorescence parameters as biomarkers of metal ...
Baró Sabé, Aina (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 ...
Hernández del Amo, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-10-04)
Nitrogen pollution in water is common in our environment, especially in places affected by agriculture and livestock, industry or wastewater discharge areas. Ammonium and nitrate are the most common ...