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Ramió Pujol, Sara (Fecha de defensa: 2016-07-07)
This doctoral thesis deals with the synthesis of two biofuels (bioethanol and biobuthanol) by bacteria. Concretely, the thesis is focused on a group of bacteria able to grow in a simple substrate such ...
Ferrando Climent, Laura (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-28)
In order to evaluate the increasing environmental and human risk of anticancer drugs in the environment, more information needs to be gathered about their presence, their toxicity, bioaccumulation and ...
Mur Torrentó, Rubén Javier (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-10)
Climate change is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. The increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, in temperatures, and changes in the precipitation pattern are ...
Ferrer Maza, Dolors (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-05)
This PhD thesis evaluates the links between parasitism, condition and reproduction of mature female individuals of three of the most captured fish species in the western Mediterranean Sea: European hake, ...
Vilà-Rovira, Albert (Fecha de defensa: 2017-10-20)
This doctoral thesis has integrated biological models (activated sludge models “ASM”) with simulation tools of computational fluid dynamics “CFD”, and has applied them to the design of two advanced ...
Aguilera Becker, Rosana (Fecha de defensa: 2015-03-10)
This work investigated the effect of global change phenomena, particularly land use and climatic changes, on water quality patterns in Mediterranean rivers. A hybrid process-based and statistical model ...
Barral Fraga, Laura (Fecha de defensa: 2017-10-26)
Based on the current knowledge about biofilm ecotoxicology and arsenic biogeochemistry in freshwater ecosystems, this thesis studied, under realistic environmental concentrations, i) the role of benthic ...
Mora Gómez, Juanita (Fecha de defensa: 2014-12-19)
This thesis studied the principal environmental controlling factors and microbial mechanisms involved in leaf litter decomposition in Mediterranean intermittent streams. Additionally, drought disturbance ...
Bacardit Peñarroya, Montserrat (Fecha de defensa: 2011-06-01)
Human activities have been interfering with the natural biogeochemical cycles of trace elements since the ancient civilizations. Although they are inaccessible and remote, high mountain lake catchments ...
Santos Clotas, Eric (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-08)
The anaerobic digestion of organic matter causes the formation of biogas that can be used in energy conversion systems for the production of electricity and heat, injection into the gas grid or as a ...