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 ...
Tarrats Sada, Pol (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
The study of past ecological changes is highly useful for understanding how ecosystems have responded to climate and human-induced disturbances. It is thus relevant in the context of climate change, as ...
Zango Palau, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-02-16)
Individual specialization refers to individuals using different portions of the total ecological niche of the population. The fact that individuals segregate into different strategies has important ...
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 ...
López Acosta, María (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
Silicon (Si), in its dissolved form of silicic acid (DSi), is a key nutrient in the ocean. The availability of such nutrient in marine ecosystems is regulated through its use by silica-secreting ...
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 ...
Lobato Vila, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
The oak cynipid inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini, Ceroptresini) are a group of specialized endophytophagous microhymenopterans that develop inside galls induced mainly by other cynipids on ...
Abril Cuevas, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2017-05-03)
Nowadays, it is recognized that freshwater ecosystems can process a substantial part of the terrestrial organic matter they transport, thereby contributing significantly to global C fluxes. However, ...