Gonzalvo Villegas, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
The Mediterranean Sea, the largest and deepest enclosed sea on Earth, is a marine biodiversity hotspot. Its cetacean diversity is also remarkable; although the species with a regular occurrence and ...
Wangensteen Fuentes, Owen S. (Date of defense: 2013-07-05)
The black sea urchin Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most abundant sea urchins in the Mediterranean. Despite its increasingly recognized ecological significance, including the ability to ...
Jiménez García, Isadora Christel (Date of defense: 2012-12-11)
Amongst the available renewable energy sources, offshore wind energy is having a rapid expansion. Renewable energies are viewed as an environmental benign alternative to the energy production based on ...
Carboneras Malet, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
The winter period is typically associated with harsh weather conditions and reduced food availability, which may lead to increased mortality. In birds, a common strategy to avoid such risks is to migrate ...
Guallar, Santi (Date of defense: 2021-04-09)
Molt is the process of plumage renewal by which birds maintain and adjust its functionality throughout their lifecycle. Multiple elements have been tackled in bird molt research (timing, duration, ...
Opatova, Vera (Date of defense: 2014-06-18)
The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae, comprising tarantulas, funnel-web spiders and the trap-door spiders, is one of the three main evolutionary lineages recognized within spiders. Its family level ...
Zanetti, Daniela (Date of defense: 2015-11-26)
The present thesis deals with a deep analysis of the genetic structure of extant human worldwide populations, with a special focus on the Mediterranean. Different genetic markers, 18 Alu insertions ...
Alba Fernández, Carmiña (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
This work is the result of extensive research on sexual and ontogenetic variation of parameters with mechanical significance in a radius bone in two species of odontocetes: Stenella coeruleoalba (Sc) ...
Roscales García, José Luis (Date of defense: 2010-10-29)
Exposure to contaminants, such as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), is currently considered a serious anthropogenic threat to marine predators and their food webs. Exposure to contaminants by marine ...
Pineda Torres, Mari Carmen (Date of defense: 2012-09-25)
"Styela plicata" is a solitary ascidian introduced all around the world by ship traffic and seems to have many of the required features to become invasive. The main goal of this PhD thesis was to increase ...