Antich González, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-10-24)
[eng] Ecosystem biomonitoring is crucial for proper management of natural communities during the Anthropocene era. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, DNA metabarcoding has been proposed as ...
Casso Carrasco, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Invasive species constitute a major threat to global biodiversity and cause important economic losses and ecological impacts. In the marine realm, ascidians include several aggressive invasive species, ...
Olivares Requena, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)
Marine planktonic copepods play a key ecological role in pelagic food webs. The study of their patterns of activity is fundamental in order to better understand the processes involved in the transfer ...
Buñuel Moreno, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-07-13)
The role of consumer-resource relationship is the basis of the structure and functioning of ecological communities. The traditional lens for studying such interactions have tended to omit the importance ...
Sanz Pérez, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
Extensive farmland ecosystems are widespread and biodiversity-rich, yet they face important human pressures since the beginning of agriculture intensification, which is leading them into a severe ...
Turon Rodrigo, Marta (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
The symbiotic lifestyle represents a fundamental contribution to the diversity of marine ecosystems. Sponges are ideal models to study symbiotic relationships from evolutionary and ecological points of ...