Peso Fernández, Marcos (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
The Pyrenean frog (Rana pyrenaica) is a Pyrenees endemic species, mostly distributed between Navarra and Aragón, and recently was described in few streams of France. The typical habitat of the species ...
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 ...
Siqueira Campos, Felipe (Date of defense: 2018-06-18)
Biodiversity patterns are results of ecological and evolutionary processes. Understanding the forces shaping biodiversity patterns help to predict the responses of ecosystems to environmental change. ...
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 ...
Villero Pi, Daniel (Date of defense: 2016-10-21)
This work is at the crossroads where conservation problems, arising from the biodiversity loss and environmental crisis, meet the difficulties of applying research outcomes in conservation practice, ...
Peña Lozano, Elionora (Date of defense: 2020-11-13)
Based on the background showing i) that obesity have a polygenic nature with the implication of different genes of minor effect and lifestyle factors; ii) the high variability between individuals in ...
Ponti de la Iglesia, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
One of the most fascinating aspects of birds is their capability of migrate from one area to another throughout the year. Unravelling the patterns and processes involved in the evolution of migration ...
Tonzo, Vanina (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
Unraveling the proximate processes that have shaped genetic variation of populations and led to lineage diversification and speciation is fundamental to understand the origin of present-day biodiversity ...
Santos Santos, Javier H. (Date of defense: 2019-01-17)
The thesis "Ecomorphological discrimination of vertebrate sister species with recent phylogenetic divergence using novel non-destructive morphometric methods” compares morphological evolution during ...
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 ...