Santamaría Pérez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
Biological invasions have become one of the most pervasive threats to native ecosystems worldwide, causing species extinctions, disrupting the functioning of ecosystems, altering the provision of critical ...
Cunillera-Montcusí, David (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
During the last years, there has been an increase in the number and intensity of disturbances, and their consequences related with global change, which have corroborated the already forecasted scenarios. ...
Jiménez Ontiveros, Vicente Luis (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
This thesis develops a quantitative approach to understanding and predicting the spatiotemporal distribution of biodiversity, based on a stochastic version of the theory of island biogeography. Here, I ...