Arizmendi Mejía, Rosana (Date of defense: 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 ...
Kersting, Diego K. (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
Marine ecosystems are declining worldwide threatened by an increasing number of stressors. Global change-related disturbances have highlighted the need of new complementary conservation measures; for ...
Montero Serra, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2018-06-07)
Temperate benthic communities face cumulative impacts from multiple stressors acting both at local and global scales. Understanding how local management and ocean warming affect the dynamics and resilience ...
Gómez Gras, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest and most pervasive threats that our natural heritage will have to face in the coming decades. Together with other anthropogenic pressures such as ...
Pagès Escolà, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary ...
Medrano Cuevas, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
All marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea are highly threatened by anthropogenic stressors that can alter their structure and function, especially in rocky shores. Moreover, extreme climate events ...
Capdevila Lanzaco, Pol (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
Life history theory and population ecology have been especially neglectful of marine species, with most ecological principles developed from studies based on terrestrial species. This is especially true ...