Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals: Recent submissions
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Towards a more sustainable management of temporary rivers: tools for improving their conservation, biomonitoring and social recognition
Temporary rivers (TRs) are dynamic systems that typically shift between flowing, disconnected-pools and dry phases, and represent nearly 50% of the current global river network. Despite TRs support several unique and endemic ...
Efectos de la contaminación sobre la biología y el comportamiento de dos ciprínidos autóctonos de la Península Ibérica
El objetivo general de esta tesis ha sido evaluar los efectos de determinados contaminantes sobre la reproducción, el estrés fisiológico y el comportamiento dos especies de ciprínidos autóctonas del NE de Cataluña y el SE ...
Towards disentangling the genetic complexity and clinical heterogeneity of psychotic disorders: from family-based approaches to gene-environment studies
Psychotic disorders are psychiatric conditions with a worldwide prevalence of around 4% and a tremendous personal, economic and social burden. As complex phenotypes, psychotic disorders are caused by multiple genetic ...
Understanding resilience through biodiversity: developing systemic tools for marine conservation in temperate rocky reefs
The degradation of natural diversity results in the erosion of key systemic properties such as resilience, or the capacity to recover from disturbances. Resilience loss leads to an increase in the fragility and vulnerability ...
Desarrollo, estabilidad y eficacia de biofertilizantes para la mejora del cultivo de plantas de tomate y maíz
El aumento de la población mundial en las últimas décadas, junto con la disminución de las tierras cultivables, ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de aumentar la producción agrícola para satisfacer la creciente demanda ...
Plant physiology and biotechnology for the study and improvement of Mediterranean japonica rice varieties
Rice belongs to the Poaceae family and Oryza genus. The genus Oryza comprehends 24 species, being 22 wild and 2 cultivated. These two cultivated species correspond to Oryza sativa, originated in Asia, nowadays cultivated ...
Reconciling standardised inventories and DNA barcoding to infer diversity patterns in Iberian spider communities
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 ...
Pelagic calcite precipitation in lakes: from a global to a local perspective on its drivers and implications
Inland waters are relevant components of the global carbon cycle acting as hot spots for biogeochemical processes by which carbon is stored, transformed, and outgassed to the atmosphere. Therefore, less than half of the ...
Estructura y migración del rorcual común del Atlántico nororiental establecido mediante trazadores químicos
El rorcual común (Balaenoptera physalus) es una de les especies de misticeto más abundante en el Atlántico Norte y es considerada como una especie de alta importancia ambiental por la legislación española. Sin embargo, aún ...
Advances in high throughput and affordable phenotyping for adapting maize and wheat to climate change
Supplying sufficient food to an increasing population is one of the most important challenges over the next century. To meet this demand, crop productivity will need to increase while it is being threatened by climate ...
Spatial ecology and migration of Calonectris shearwaters: new insights from Spanish populations revealed by biologging
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 ...
The ecological significance of nutritional strategies in gypsum plant communities
Gypsophile species are edaphic endemics of gypsum soils, and they are considered specialists of this stressful substrate. Gypsum endemics from different families and regions of the world tend to show a unique leaf elemental ...
Interacciones y patrones evolutivos de los caracteres de historia de vida en humanos. Influencia de los factores sociales y culturales sobre el patrón reproductivo
En nuestra especie, los hombres y las mujeres presentan un patrón reproductivo diferenciado: los hombres retienen el potencial reproductivo hasta edades avanzadas, mientras que las mujeres ven restringida su vida reproductiva ...
The expanding tree-nesting Bonelli´s eagle (Aquila fasciata) population of southern Portugal
Bonelli's eagle is considered an umbrella and flagship species in Mediterranean ecosystems. In this thesis, we focus on the fact that the Bonelli’s eagle population in southern Portugal nests in trees – behaviour that ...
The response of Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages to climate change: an integrated, long-term view from species and populations to the ecosystem level
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 ...
Development of doubled haploids, chromosome doubling and CRISPR/Cas9 techniques in melon for the next generation of breeding
The general aim of this PhD thesis was to study, develop and apply different breeding techniques in melon species in order to produce new commercial cultivars. The three specific objectives of this thesis are: 1. To ...
Geometric morphometrics and topographic analyses of dental wear in modern human populations
Dental wear is a natural, complex, physiological process of gradual enamel tissue loss that occurs during an individual’s life span and provides information about dietary habits, food processing techniques and cultural ...
Taxonomic review of oak cynipid inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with special attention to the New World fauna and an approach to their global phylogeny
The oak cynipid inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini, Ceroptresini) are a group of specialized endophytophagous microhymenopterans that develop inside galls induced mainly by other cynipids on Fagaceae trees, ...
Seed treatments for the protection of crops
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 ...
Structural and physiological mechanisms underlying abiotic stress tolerance in the Mediterranean shrub Cistus albudus L.
Mediterranean species have to be in constant acclimation to seasonal environmental changes, including variations in water availability, air temperature and solar radiation. Due to global warming, these environmental changes ...
