Departament d'Ecologia

Recent Submissions

Environmental shaping and carbon cycling in a macrophyte-dominated Mediterranean coastal lagoon 

Obrador Sala, Biel (Date of defense: 2009-06-03)

Las lagunas litorales son sistemas altamente dinámicos en los que la vegetación sumergida juega un papel estructural y funcional fundamental. En esta tesis se ha realizado una aproximación a la ecología funcional de una ...

Revisión de la biología y ecología de la familia Brachylaimidae Joyeux et Foley, 1930 (Trematoda: Digenea) con especial énfasis en las especies parásitas de mamíferos 

Montoliu Sanllehy, Isabel de (Date of defense: 1984-01-01)

La finalidad de la presente obra es la de contribuir al conocimiento de la biología y ecología de los Digénidos representantes de la familia Brachylaimidae, mediante el estudio detallado del ciclo vital y de la evolución ...

The functional role of emergent macrophytes in nature-based solutions (NBS) aiming to mitigate nutrient loading in freshwater ecosystems 

Nikolakopoulou, Myrto-Georgia (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)

Freshwater degradation has been largely attributed to excess nutrient concentrations of anthropogenic origin. Freshwater degradation in combination with water scarcity are the reason of severe stress on water resources ...

Ecología y sistemática de los quironómidos (Insecta, Diptera) de los embalses españoles 

Prat i Fornells, Narcís (Date of defense: 1978-06-21)

Se estudian los quironómidos desde diferentes ángulos tanto su sistemática como algunos aspectos de su ecología en los embalses españoles. La tesis se divide en tres partes: dos de sistemática y una de ecología. En la ...

Effects of flow discontinuities on carbon gas fluxes in a Mediterranean fluvial network = Efecte de les dicontinuitats hidrològiques sobre els fluxes gasosos de carboni en una xarxa fluvial Mediterrània 

Gómez Gener, Lluís (Date of defense: 2017-02-10)

Inland waters are active components of the global carbon (C) cycle that transform, store and outgas more than half of the C they receive from adjacent terrestrial ecosystems. However, fundamental uncertainties regarding ...

Insights into seascape ecology: landscape patterns as drivers in coastal marine ecosystems = Perspectives en l'ecologia del paisatge marí: els patrons del paisatge com a factors de control en els ecosistemes marins costaners 

Martínez Ricart, Aurora (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)

Habitats commonly occur as more or less interconnected patches constituting spatial heterogeneous mosaics. Connectivity and interactions among habitats can determine their functioning. Therefore, ecological patterns and ...

Flora and vegetation of the Guayana highlands : past dynamics, global warming and conservation guidelines = Flora i vegetació de les Terres de Guayana : dinàmica del passat, escalfament global i directrius de conservació 

Safont Crespo, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

This thesis is aimed at the study of the flora and vegetation of the Guayana Highlands (GH), a set of -50 table mountains (called tepuis) located in the Guayana Shield of northern South America. Special emphasis is put on ...

Palaeoecological study of vegetation dynamics in the Neotropical Gran Sabana since the Late Glacial = Estudio paleoecológico de la dinámica de la vegetación en la Neotropical Gran Sabana desde el Tardiglaciar 

Ballesteros Larrotta, Tania Marcela (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

The Gran Sabana (GS, Northern South America) is a humid savanna region (treeless savanna intermingled with forest patches) with a long history of vegetation changes under fire disturbances. A number of hypotheses seek to ...

Invertebrate community responses to pollutants in mediterranean basins : insights from ecotoxicological approaches = Respostes de la comunitat d'invertebrats als contaminants en conques mediterrànies: aproximacions ecotoxicològiques 

Castro Català, Núria de (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

Aquatic systems are under pressure from multiple stressors that affect the structure, the functioning, and the health of species, communities and ecosystems. One of the main human pressures affecting the Earth’s ecosystems ...

Biology and population ecology of uncultured Archaea in natural environments analyzed by taxon-specific molecular markers = Biología y ecología poblacional de Archaeas no cultivadas en ambientes naturales analizadas mediante marcadores moleculares específicos 

Restrepo Ortiz, Claudia Ximena (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

The annual dynamics of three different ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) ecotypes (amoA gene) and of the SAGMCG-1 (Nitrosotalea-like aquatic Thaumarchaeota) group (16S rRNA gene) were studied by newly designed specific primers ...

Ecology and bioindicator potential of benthic macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean salt wedge estuary: the Ebro River case 

Nebra Costas, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

The Ebro Delta-Estuary complex is one of the largest wetland areas in the western Mediterranean, and it is considered one of the most important estuarine zones in Europe. In 2013, the Ebro watershed, including its deltaic ...

Fire legacies in Mediterranean streams: the key roles of the riparian canopy and the top predator on food webs 

Rodríguez Lozano, Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

Wildfires are expected to increase in frequency and intensity because of climate change and changes in land use and management. In last decades, the research on fire effects on aquatic systems has grown, but it has been ...

Modelling Social-Ecological Systems in the Catalan Coastal Zones 

Tomlinson, Benjamin John (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)

The Systems Approach Framework (SAF) is a methodological framework designed to enhance the efficacy of human decision-making processes within social-ecological systems with regard to sustainability. The SAF was applied in ...

Fish as local stressors of Pyrenean high mountain lakes: Arrival process and impact on amphibians and other organisms 

Miró Pastó, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2016-01-08)

Pyrenean high mountain lakes are naturally fishless due to natural barriers that have prevented the natural colonisation of fish species from lower streams. However, there have been numerous trout introductions to such ...

Conservation of marine habitat-forming species under climate change: population genetics and demographic responses of the Mediterranean red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata. 

Arizmendi Mejía, Rosana (Date of defense: 2015-11-25)

Climate change, along with other anthropogenic pressures (e.g. water pollution, overfishing and habitat degradation), is severely impacting oceans around the world, producing important changes in its physical and biological ...

The influence of Mediterranean riparian zones on stream nitrogen dynamics: A catchment approach. 

Lupón i Navazo, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)

Riparian areas are recognized to be natural filters of nitrogen (N) because they can substantially diminish the N delivery from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. However, understanding the influence of riparian zones on ...

Mediterranean forests in a changing environment - Impacts of drought and temperature stress on tree physiology 

Sperlich, Dominik (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)

The Mediterranean Basin is a climate-change hotspot of the world. Predicted reductions in annual precipitation, increases in mean temperature, and increases in the variability and occurrence of extreme droughts and heat ...

Scale-dependent factors modulate sea urchin predation in macrophyte communities 

Farina, Simone (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)

Many nearshore temperate coastal ecosystems are strongly regulated by top-down control. This is particularly true of shallow macrophyte communities, where habitat structuring is heavily dependent on the ability of predators ...

Tracking environmental change in seagrass meadows: understanding indicator behaviour across space and time 

Roca Carceller, Guillem (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)

Nearshore marine ecosystems like seagrass meadows face a wide range of anthropogenic influences, impacting the system at different spatial and temporal scales. Managing these systems in the face of these pressures requires ...

Effects of human activities on nitrogen cycling in Mediterranean streams: contrasts between nitrate and ammoniun dynamics 

Ribot Bermejo, Miquel (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)

Human activities have increased dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) availability and modified the relative proportion of DIN as NO3- or NH4+ in running waters. Because nitrogen (N) is an essential element for in-stream ...