The environmental change in coastal ecosystems during the Late Holocene as recorded in seagrass sedimentary archives 

    Leiva Dueñas, Carmen (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)

    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, ...

    Evaluación de la vulnerabilidad y del estado de conservación de ecosistemas marinos bentónicos especialmente productivos del Mediterráneo frente al impacto de la pesca de arrastre, para impulsar su correcta gestión 

    Garcia de Vinuesa Gutiérrez, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)

    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 ...

    Hydrometeorological and climatic control over lake phytoplankton: the importance of time scales 

    Janatian, Nasime (Date of defense: 2021-08-27)

    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 ...

    Influence of predictable anthropogenic food subsides on seabird´s breeding investment 

    Real Garcia, Enric (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)

    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 ...

    Understanding stochastic and deterministric microbial assembly processes in ephemeral saline lakes 

    Menéndez Serra, Mateu (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)

    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 ...