Garcés Pastor, Sandra (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
High-mountain ranges are suitable ecosystems for studying local environmental shifts driven by large-scale climate changes. Sedimentary records obtained from those regions contain information that allows ...
Sánchez-Fortún Burriel, Moisès (Date of defense: 2022-07-20)
Mercury pollution is of great concern for the scientific community due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment. Its bioaccumulation and biomagnification capacities along food webs enhance ...
Morera Pujol, Virginia (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
Movement is a widespread characteristic in the animal kingdom —occurring at many spatiotemporal scales— with consequences at an individual, population, species, and even ecosystem level. It is a very ...
Pereira de Felipe, Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Sexual Segregation (SS) is a phenomenon that occurs across a wide range of animal species, and that had been broadly categorized in spatial/habitat segregation and social segregation. SS of a given ...
Poblador Ibáñez, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
During the last decades, most of the studies based on climate change effects on vegetation physiology have focused on upland forests and species at their border of distribution, since, in both conditions, ...
Giménez Grau, Pau (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
The main objectives of this dissertation were (a) to determine the effects of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization on the growth of microalgal groups of periphyton and phytoplankton, and (b) ...
Muntán Bordas, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
In recent decades, information about past snow avalanches in the Pyrenees is being acquired by searching in different sources. One of these sources are tree rings. In this Ph.D. thesis, dendrogeomorphological ...
Neto Militao, Teresa Afonso (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
Animal migration is an amazing widespread phenomenon that forms an essential component of the animal life history. Animals usually migrate to take advantages of changes in resource availability in space ...
Granados Pérez, Verónica (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
Water availability is the primary driver of dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES). Therefore, current research manifests the global influence of ...
Sitjà Poch, Cèlia (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
The general outline of this thesis was to assess the potential of the Mediterranean water masses to transport deep-sea fauna towards the Atlantic Ocean. By examining the effects that the bathyal water ...