Sanmartí Boixeda, Neus (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Our world is subjected to a panoply of drivers of change. In this context, the understanding on how our biosphere resists, absorbs or is altered by the changes, appears as a hot question in ecology. In ...
Tonzo, Vanina (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
Unraveling the proximate processes that have shaped genetic variation of populations and led to lineage diversification and speciation is fundamental to understand the origin of present-day biodiversity ...
Ferreres Contreras, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
Rice belongs to the Poaceae family and Oryza genus. The genus Oryza comprehends 24 species, being 22 wild and 2 cultivated. These two cultivated species correspond to Oryza sativa, originated in Asia, ...
Antich González, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-10-24)
[eng] Ecosystem biomonitoring is crucial for proper management of natural communities during the Anthropocene era. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, DNA metabarcoding has been proposed as ...
Mosquera Vintimilla, Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)
[eng] High-mountain tropical lakes in the South American continent are located in the upper part of the Andes range in the equatorial zone (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia), altitudinally, ...
Soria Extremera, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
Temporary rivers (TRs) are dynamic systems that typically shift between flowing, disconnected-pools and dry phases, and represent nearly 50% of the current global river network. Despite TRs support ...
García de la Chica, Alba Tamara (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
Understanding how a social organization and mating system can be beneficial, and hence, persist in populations, requires that we investigate the perspective of all individuals involved. However, in ...
Badia Boher, Jaume Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] In this thesis, we took advantage of recent advances in the degree of sophistication and flexibility of population models to study the population dynamics and conservation of long-lived species. ...
Rezzouk, Fatima Zahra (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] Wheat is a major staple food worldwide. Its cultural and economic importance is mainly highlighted in the Mediterranean region, among other regions of the world. However, wheat production is ...
Casso Carrasco, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Invasive species constitute a major threat to global biodiversity and cause important economic losses and ecological impacts. In the marine realm, ascidians include several aggressive invasive species, ...