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 ...
Pueyo Puntí, Salvador (Date of defense: 2003-03-25)
This work is the result of a search for general (or nearly general) regularities at ecosystem level, and an exploration of their practical relevance in our relations with the environment.<br/>I began ...
Canals Merseburger, Mª Goretti (Date of defense: 2006-04-24)
A full understanding of nutrient cycling in lotic ecosystems is crucial given the increasing influence of human activities on the eutrophication of streams and rivers. However, existing knowledge about ...
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 ...
Mendoza Barberá, Guillermo de (Date of defense: 2013-06-20)
“Lake macroinvertebrates and the altitudinal gradient in the Pyrenees [Los macroinvertebrados lacustres y el gradiente altitudinal en los Pirineos]” is a thesis about freshwater macroinvertebrate ...
Gera, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
Overall, this thesis is an attempt at approaching seagrass ecosystems from a landscape perspective, with the aim of increasing knowledge about the processes generating patterns at large spatial scales, ...
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 ...
Catalán Alemany, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2003-05-30)
The high variability in the recruitment of marine fishes is probably explained by small fluctuations in the mortality rates of early developmental stages. A popular proxy for the potential mortality of ...
Caraballo López, Tatiana (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
Phytoplankton embraces a large diversity of life forms, from pioneer oxygenic photosynthetic cyanobacteria to a broad spectrum of phylogenetically distant eukaryotic organisms. In many of the evolutionary ...
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 ...