Sanmartí Boixeda, Neus (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Our world is subjected to a panoply of drivers of change. In this context, the understanding on how our biosphere resists, absorbs or is altered by the changes, appears as a hot question in ecology. In ...
Barría Oyarzo, Claudio (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
In this thesis, the ecological role of 26 species of abundant, rare and endangered chondrichthyans present in the western Mediterranean has been studied through the study of trophic ecology and main ...
Velasquez Vacca, Adriana (Date of defense: 2023-03-21)
[eng] Hawaiian green turtles Chelonia mydas were heavily exploited for their fat, meat and eggs by the Polynesians in the pre-contact era and continued to be commercially exploited until 1978 when they ...
Giménez, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis fills important gaps of knowledge that will help to develop a proper conservation strategy for cetaceans in southern Iberian waters. We were able to define different ecological management ...
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 ...
Lazzari, Natali (Date of defense: 2021-01-18)
The alarming rate of marine biodiversity loss calls for new strategies of understanding and accounting for human-nature relationships. Anthropogenic impacts are the main drivers of changes in coastal ...
Aspillaga Cuevas, Eneko (Date of defense: 2017-07-27)
Animal movement is a key biological process for the maintenance of ecosystem services, and a major concern for the conservation of biodiversity. The aim of movement ecology is to understand the causes ...
Pagès Escolà, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary ...
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 ...
Montseny Cuscó, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Cold-water coral (CWC) habitats dwell on continental shelves, slopes, canyons, seamounts, and ridge systems around the world’s oceans, from 50 m to depths up to 4000 m. CWC species provide heterogeneous ...