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Domènech Andreu, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)
Unveiling the patterns and identifying the factors that drive community assembly are key questions in ecology and evolution, especially in the current state of climate change and biodiversity loss. Because of its particular ...
Miret Barrio, Javier Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-05-25)
El malbaratament dels productes frescos suposa la pèrdua de fins a un 45% dels fruits i vegetals. El canvi global i el previst increment de la freqüència de fenòmens meteorològics extrems representaran una major pressió a ...
Tijero Esteve, Verónica (Date of defense: 2019-10-10)
Las cerezas (Prunus avium L.) son frutos muy apreciados por el consumidor, alrededor del mundo, debido a sus características visuales y organolépticas. Como un fruto carnoso con hueso no climatérico, los cambios bioquímicos ...
Montero Serra, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2018-06-07)
Temperate benthic communities face cumulative impacts from multiple stressors acting both at local and global scales. Understanding how local management and ocean warming affect the dynamics and resilience of dominant ...
Gómez Gras, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest and most pervasive threats that our natural heritage will have to face in the coming decades. Together with other anthropogenic pressures such as pollution, overfishing or ...
Poblador Ibáñez, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
During the last decades, most of the studies based on climate change effects on vegetation physiology have focused on upland forests and species at their border of distribution, since, in both conditions, species are highly ...
Flores Escobar, Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2020-01-10)
Las selvas tropicales mexicanas resguardan la distribución más septentrional de los platirrinos en el Neotrópico, representada por tres especies: el mono aullador de manto (Alouatta palliata), el mono aullador negro (Alouatta ...
Granados García, Maria Elena (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
Los ecosistemas de la Cuenca Mediterránea han experimentado a lo largo de tiempos ancestrales fuertes y prolongados procesos de degradación, por lo que desde el último tercio del siglo XIX se han realizado forestaciones ...
Castro López, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
Worldwide, biological diversity is declining at an unprecedented rate. Current environmental changes are causing water, ecological and biodiversity crises that, coupled with climate change, are affecting landscape patterns ...
Gamboa Badilla, Nancy (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Biological diversity in a global scale has been threaten seriously by anthropogenic disturbances in ecosystems. Changes in land cover and land use affect biodiversity, causing habitat loss and species extinction, or ...
Rezzouk, Fatima Zahra (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] Wheat is a major staple food worldwide. Its cultural and economic importance is mainly highlighted in the Mediterranean region, among other regions of the world. However, wheat production is frequently challenged by ...
Ontoria Gómez, Yaiza (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)
Coastal ecosystems are highly threatened worldwide by multiple anthropogenic stressors that act at a range of spatial scales, from local to the global, and adversely affect their ecological functions and associated ...
Estévez Geffriaud, Virginia (Date of defense: 2021-02-03)
This thesis focuses on the development and subsequent application of a seed treatment protocol using a phytosanitary product named T34 Biocontrol (Biocontrol Technologies S.L., Spain) containing the active ingredient ...
Pereira de Felipe, Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Sexual Segregation (SS) is a phenomenon that occurs across a wide range of animal species, and that had been broadly categorized in spatial/habitat segregation and social segregation. SS of a given species is often related ...
López Acosta, María (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
Silicon (Si), in its dissolved form of silicic acid (DSi), is a key nutrient in the ocean. The availability of such nutrient in marine ecosystems is regulated through its use by silica-secreting organisms, a variety of ...
Muntán Bordas, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
In recent decades, information about past snow avalanches in the Pyrenees is being acquired by searching in different sources. One of these sources are tree rings. In this Ph.D. thesis, dendrogeomorphological techniques ...
Chang, Chao-Ting (Date of defense: 2017-07-07)
The variations of ecosystem and soil respiration are mainly driven by temperature and precipitation, but the importance of temperature and precipitation could vary across temporal and spatial. At diurnal to annual temporal ...
Reyes González, José Manuel de los (Date of defense: 2021-05-26)
The revolution in biologging and satellite telemetry technologies in the last two decades has led to a new era in seabird research. This thesis brings new insights into the spatial ecology and migration of the Cory’s and ...
Cerecedo Iglesias, Catuxa (Date of defense: 2024-06-14)
[eng] The current rampant loss of biodiversity is known to be affecting human well-being the world over. Sustainability has become the global go-to solution to ensure the balance between economic growth, social well-being ...
Guerreiro Duarte Rivaes da Silva, Ana Sofia (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Migration associated with movements between breeding and wintering areas allow animals to maximize fitness in response to seasonal changes in resources (Dingle 2014). Some of the most incredible migrations in the animal ...