Barberán Torrents, Albert (Date of defense: 2012-09-07)
El estudio de los microorganismos en cultivo puro ha propiciado el desarrollo de la genética, la bioquímica y la biotecnología. Sin embargo, la ecología ha permanecido reticente a incorporar a los ...
Lupón i Navazo, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)
Riparian areas are recognized to be natural filters of nitrogen (N) because they can substantially diminish the N delivery from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. However, understanding the influence ...
Pastor Oliveras, Ada (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
The overarching goal of this dissertation was to explore relationships between streamwater nitrogen (N) and the most representative primary uptake compartments (PUCs) in stream ecosystems (e.g. microbial ...
Farina, Simone (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)
Many nearshore temperate coastal ecosystems are strongly regulated by top-down control. This is particularly true of shallow macrophyte communities, where habitat structuring is heavily dependent on the ...
Roca Carceller, Guillem (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Nearshore marine ecosystems like seagrass meadows face a wide range of anthropogenic influences, impacting the system at different spatial and temporal scales. Managing these systems in the face of these ...
Rodríguez Lozano, Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Wildfires are expected to increase in frequency and intensity because of climate change and changes in land use and management. In last decades, the research on fire effects on aquatic systems has grown, ...
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, ...
Ejarque Gonzalez, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)
Rivers play a key role in the global biogeochemical functioning, as they link the biogeochemical cycles of the terrestrial and oceanic systems. In the framework of the carbon cycle, streams and rivers ...
Catalán García, Núria (Date of defense: 2013-09-13)
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a primary source of organic carbon in aquatic ecosystems. Inland waters actively transform DOM, having a relevant effect on the regional and global carbon budgets. DOM ...