Universitat de Barcelona
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[eng] In this thesis, our focus was on unraveling how Caenorhabditis elegans samples its environment in the absence of gradients and food resources. We analyzed data from a relocation experiment in which individual worms, ...
Coastal ecosystems, especially the vegetated areas, are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world, undergoing a fast and constant decline. Their losses are of serious concern due to their elevated production, ...
En el mar Mediterráneo existen hábitats especialmente productivos como los fondos de maërl y de agregación de crinoideos, que son explotados en la actualidad por la flota de arrastre. Esta actividad supone un impacto que ...
In the present thesis we focus on the two extremes of the wind speed – storms and atmospheric stilling – and analyse their impacts on lake environments and phytoplankton dynamics over short and long periods. As we realised ...
Recent policies on the ban of fishing discards and the closure of open-air landfills are expected to reduce amount of predictable anthropogenic food subsidies (PAFS) for seabirds. To forecast the ecological consequences ...
[eng] Neotropical mountains are known for their high biodiversity and endemism, providing numerous ecosystem services to the surrounding areas. However, mountain biodiversity is rapidly declining due to climate change ...
Understanding the mechanisms and processes driving biological com- munities assembly, i.e. determining why a specific community is found under certain circumstances, is one of the fundamental questions in ecology. The ...
