Cera Rull, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
Gypsophile species are edaphic endemics of gypsum soils, and they are considered specialists of this stressful substrate. Gypsum endemics from different families and regions of the world tend to show a ...
Aspillaga Cuevas, Eneko (Date of defense: 2017-07-27)
Animal movement is a key biological process for the maintenance of ecosystem services, and a major concern for the conservation of biodiversity. The aim of movement ecology is to understand the causes ...
Vergara Díaz, Omar (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
Global climate change effects on agroecosystems together with increasing world population is already threatening food security and endangering ecosystem stability. Meet global food demand with crops ...
Gómez Gras, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest and most pervasive threats that our natural heritage will have to face in the coming decades. Together with other anthropogenic pressures such as ...
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, ...
Khan, Hares (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Inland waters are relevant components of the global carbon cycle acting as hot spots for biogeochemical processes by which carbon is stored, transformed, and outgassed to the atmosphere. Therefore, less ...
Palacín Lizarbe, Carlos (Date of defense: 2019-07-30)
The reservoir size and pathway rates of the nitrogen (N) cycle have been deeply modified by the human enhancement of N fixation, atmospheric emissions, and climate warming, doubling the reactive nitrogen ...
Pagès Escolà, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary ...
Medrano Cuevas, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
All marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea are highly threatened by anthropogenic stressors that can alter their structure and function, especially in rocky shores. Moreover, extreme climate events ...
Payo Payo, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
The overarching aim of my thesis was to assess the role of environmental variability and specially of perturbations in the population dynamics of social vertebrates. Our results emphasize the need to ...