Marcé Romero, Rafael (Date of defense: 2007-05-29)
The role of the materials coming from the watershed on the reservoir water quality is an emergent area of high scientific interest with many practical implications. In this study we investigated the ...
Castillo Jurado, Marcos del (Date of defense: 2003-12-16)
Se estudia por vez primera la morfología de todas las superficies de agua con al menos media hectárea de todo el Pirineo. Caracterizamos morfométricamente estos lagos en base a variables tradicionales, ...
Navarro Rodríguez, Enrique (Date of defense: 2001-12-19)
Desde los albores de la civilización, los ríos son una de las vías habituales usadas por el hombre para desprenderse de parte de sus desechos. Por ello, los sistemas fluviales han sido espectadores ...
Hereu Fina, Bernat (Date of defense: 2007-04-28)
The discipline of ecology is habitually divided up into a whole range of different specialities, and this thesis forms part of what is commonly known as "community ecology" (Diamond and Case 1986). To ...
Vilalta Baliellas, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2004-07-26)
The role of natural biofilms affecting the water quality in rivers has been the main theme in this study. Firstly, the study developed the capacity of biofilms in retention and/or production of DOC. ...
Comerma Gómez, Marta (Date of defense: 2003-03-24)
We studied the planktonic food web in the eutrophic Sau Reservoir (Catalonia, NE Spain) taking account of both spatial as well as temporal scales. We have analysed several longitudinal transects (sampling ...
Ventura Oller, Marc (Date of defense: 2005-01-28)
The aim of this thesis was to describe the life history variability of the assemblage of crustacean zooplankton in Lake Redon, with special emphasis in their life-cycles, ecological characteristics and ...
Solà Ortega, Carolina (Date of defense: 2004-07-21)
L'abril de 1998, durant l'accident miner d'Aznalcóllar, més de 6 milions de m3 de llots i aigües àcides altament contaminades amb metalls pesants van ser vessats al riu Guadiamar (Sevilla), destruint ...
Aranda Cirerol, Nancy (Date of defense: 2004-06-29)
La calidad del agua costera está siendo alterada por el incremento de los desechos propios de las actividades humanas; los nutrientes nitrógeno y fósforo generados por estas fuentes pueden acrecentar ...
Bartumeus i Ferré, Frederic (Date of defense: 2005-06-17)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:<br/><br/>The general aim of this thesis was to develop a theoretical framework in order to study large-scale animal movements and/or dispersal processes as random search strategies. ...