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Arizmendi Mejía, Rosana (Fecha de defensa: 2015-11-25)
Climate change, along with other anthropogenic pressures (e.g. water pollution, overfishing and habitat degradation), is severely impacting oceans around the world, producing important changes in its ...
Castro Català, Núria de (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-05)
Aquatic systems are under pressure from multiple stressors that affect the structure, the functioning, and the health of species, communities and ecosystems. One of the main human pressures affecting ...
Mendoza Barberá, Guillermo de (Fecha de defensa: 2013-06-20)
“Lake macroinvertebrates and the altitudinal gradient in the Pyrenees [Los macroinvertebrados lacustres y el gradiente altitudinal en los Pirineos]” is a thesis about freshwater macroinvertebrate ...
Gera, Alessandro (Fecha de defensa: 2013-06-21)
Overall, this thesis is an attempt at approaching seagrass ecosystems from a landscape perspective, with the aim of increasing knowledge about the processes generating patterns at large spatial scales, ...
Sperlich, Dominik (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-24)
The Mediterranean Basin is a climate-change hotspot of the world. Predicted reductions in annual precipitation, increases in mean temperature, and increases in the variability and occurrence of extreme ...
Caraballo López, Tatiana (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-13)
Phytoplankton embraces a large diversity of life forms, from pioneer oxygenic photosynthetic cyanobacteria to a broad spectrum of phylogenetically distant eukaryotic organisms. In many of the evolutionary ...
Miró Pastó, Alexandre (Fecha de defensa: 2016-01-08)
Pyrenean high mountain lakes are naturally fishless due to natural barriers that have prevented the natural colonisation of fish species from lower streams. However, there have been numerous trout ...
Ribot Bermejo, Miquel (Fecha de defensa: 2015-03-27)
Human activities have increased dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) availability and modified the relative proportion of DIN as NO3- or NH4+ in running waters. Because nitrogen (N) is an essential element ...
Ballesteros Larrotta, Tania Marcela (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-08)
The Gran Sabana (GS, Northern South America) is a humid savanna region (treeless savanna intermingled with forest patches) with a long history of vegetation changes under fire disturbances. A number of ...
Merbt, Stephanie Nikol (Fecha de defensa: 2015-01-23)
The main goal of this PhD thesis was the study of the ammonium oxidation process in high nutrient loaded urban streams. We aimed to unveil regulating factors and driving mechanisms from the organisms ...