Ferrer Suay, Mar (Date of defense: 2014-05-05)
Members of the subfamily Charipinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) are secondary parasitoids of aphids via Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Aphelininae (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) and ...
Martínez Salmeron, Debora (Date of defense: 2014-07-15)
Over time, many studies about deer antlers, based on classical morphometry, have been done. The present study propose a new perspective on the study of Iberian red deer antlers (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) ...
Clusa Ferrand, Marcel (Date of defense: 2014-02-18)
With more than 40% of the world’s population living in coastal areas, oceans have become an indispensable resource for humankind but many coastal and marine regions are suffering from multiple anthropogenic ...
López Legentil, Susanna (Date of defense: 2005-04-01)
Intraspecies variability is widespread in marine invertebrates. Previous reports of <I>Cystodytes</I> (Ascidiacea, Polycitoridae) in the Mediterranean have been routinely attributed to the nominal species ...
Brotons, Lluís (Date of defense: 2000-02-03)
The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the variation in non-breeding social systems within the group of parids and to identify the main factors involved. More specifically, I studied the role ...
Rudoy, Andrey (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
In the present work I analysed different aspects of the evolution of genus Limnebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), including its molecular evolution using mitochondrial (COI, 16S, tRNA-leu, NAD1) and nuclear ...
Athanasiadis, Georgios (Date of defense: 2010-07-14)
In this work we have analyzed the variation of (i) several X chromosome polymorphic Alu insertions and (ii) several SNPs and microsatellites within and around the genomic regions of the genes coding for ...
Torre Corominas, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2004-11-03)
The main objectives of this thesis were to analyse the relative roles of food availability and predation on the distribution, population dynamics and habitat selection of small mammals in Mediterranean ...
Richter Boix, Alex (Date of defense: 2006-01-20)
The thesis research concerned evolutionary ecology and community ecology of amphibians in two different areas of a Mediterranean region. The goal of the research was to test how anuran species coexist ...
Arcos Pros, José Manuel (Date of defense: 2001-12-20)
Seabirds feeding ecology was studied at sea to assess the significance of two commercial fisheries, trawlers (demersal fishery with diurnal activity) and purse seiners (pelagic fishery with nocturnal ...