Departament de Ciències Ambientals

La Universitat de Girona té més de 15.000 estudiants i 1.400 professors. Ofereix uns 50 estudis de grau i més de 20 màsters. S’organitza en 9 centres docents, 1 Escola de Doctorat, 6 centres adscrits. L’activitat de recerca es du a terme en 24 departaments, 12 instituts de recerca i més de 40 càtedres, a més d’un centenar de grups de recerca especialitzat. Té la seu a la ciutat de Girona i s’integra en el sistema d’universitats públiques catalanes.

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Recent Submissions

Conservation biology of the Spanish toothcarp (Aphanius iberus): mechanisms of coexistence with eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) 

Fernández-Vilar, Andrés Lucas (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)

Inland waters are amongst the most diverse and impacted ecosystems globally, and they host many endangered taxa. Cyprinodontiforms are at the forefront of endangered freshwater fishes in Europe, with more than 80% of the ...

Variability in the health status and reproductive traits of European sardine stocks in the Mediterranean. Implications for fishery management 

Caballero-Huertas, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

Small pelagic fish play an important ecological role mainly due to their contribution in transferring energy from low to higher trophic levels. Likewise, the capture of these species is in many cases an important nutritional ...

Hydrological alteration, critical swimming speed and life history in inland fish 

Cano-Barbacil, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)

Fresh waters are among the most biodiverse ecosystems globally but, at the same time, also the most threatened. Serious threats to freshwater ecosystems are, for example, habitat alteration, invasive alien species and ...

Radiación ultravioleta y sequía: efectos sobre la fisiología y la descomposición de hojarasca de especies arbustivas mediterráneas en el contexto del cambio climático 

Rodríguez Hidalgo, Claudia Marina (Date of defense: 2020-09-09)

Various climatic models predict an increase in the ultraviolet (UV) radiation and a reduction in the precipitation levels reaching in the Mediterranean Basin. Exposure of plants to different levels of UV radiation and water ...

Unraveling the success of invaders: biotic and abiotic factors determining the invasibility of Mediterranean benthic assemblages by Caulerpa cylindracea 

Santamaría Pérez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)

Biological invasions have become one of the most pervasive threats to native ecosystems worldwide, causing species extinctions, disrupting the functioning of ecosystems, altering the provision of critical ecosystem services ...

Mediterranean macroalgal forests under threat: the effects of ongoing climate change and design of restoration methods 

Verdura Brugarola, Jana (Date of defense: 2021-06-04)

Macroalgal forests represent some of the most productive and biodiverse habitats on Earth. In the Mediterranean Sea, species of the genus Cystoseira sensu lato dominate the well-preserved subtidal rocky habitats where ...

Influence of flow alteration and metal pollution on stream biota: from species to community-level responses 

Rubio Gracia, Francesc (Date of defense: 2021-10-27)

This thesis aimed to assess the responses of stream biota to flow alterations, in terms of water velocity increments and reductions of discharge, and to metal pollution. The investigations performed encompassed (i) ...

Ecosystem functioning of Mediterranean confined coastal lagoons: ecosystem metabolism, main drivers and phytoplankton community 

Bas Silvestre, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-10-19)

Confined coastal lagoons are shallow and dynamic water bodies that play an important ecological role. Considering the severe degradation they have been facing in the last years, understanding the functioning of these ...

Stochastic models and the temporal dynamics of ecological communities 

Jiménez Ontiveros, Vicente Luis (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)

This thesis develops a quantitative approach to understanding and predicting the spatiotemporal distribution of biodiversity, based on a stochastic version of the theory of island biogeography. Here, I present R package ...

Agricultural practices, biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by bats in Mediterranean crops 

Puig, Xavier, 1975- (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)

We study the effect of organic farming practices on several taxa in olive groves and vineyards. Sessile organisms show a stronger response to treatment, their diversity being higher in organic vineyards. Vagile organism ...

Effects of environmental conditions on phenotypic plasticity of fishes in Iberian waters: life-history, physiological and morphological traits 

Latorre Espeso, Dani (Date of defense: 2019-10-17)

Phenotypic plasticity is the adaptive response of a genotype to presenting different types of phenotypes in response to environmental changes. These adaptive responses can contribute to a particular species being able to ...

Distribución geográfica, predicción espacial y diversidad de los hábitats litorales en la costa catalana 

Cefalì, Maria Elena (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)

According to the Habitats Directive (92/43/ECC) a habitat is defined as “the terrestrial or aquatic area, whether entirely natural or semi-natural, differentiated by its geographical, biotic and abiotic characteristics, ...

Disentangling the complexity of chemical and physical stressors impacting river systems 

Sabater Liesa, Laia (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)

Humanity has always been closely linked to rivers, benefiting from their resources while producing impacts associated with their activity.Thus, river systems have been exposed to multiple stressors, which have affected the ...

At the edge of aquatic systems: intermittent streambed microbial communities’ responses to hydrological alterations 

Gionchetta, Giulia (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)

Hydrological drought is a process of natural desiccation mainly due to large shortage of rainfall events. Reduced precipitations and prolonged droughts are spreading worldwide and threaten the integrity of aquatic ...

Soil and vegetation carbon dynamics (stocks and fluxes) and litter decomposition in a Mediterranean non-tidal salt marsh 

Carrasco Barea, Lorena (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)

Salt marshes are considered key ecosystems for climate regulation because they have a high carbon sequestration capacity. However, most studies of carbon sequestration capacity of these ecosystems have been performed in ...

Biofilm responses to flow intermittency in Mediterranean rivers 

Colls Lozano, Miriam (Date of defense: 2020-07-31)

Currently, global change is promoting the spatiotemporal occurrence of temporary streams, altering fluvial ecosystem function and structure, and the ecosystem services they provide. To effectively protect fluvial ecosystems, ...

Dissecting the assembly process of benthic communities from Neotropical streams 

González Trujillo, Juan David (Date of defense: 2020-07-30)

I used the metacommunity framework to dissect the relative influences of dispersal (in ecological and evolutionary timeframes), selection (driven by abiotic factors) and ecological drift on the assembly process of freshwater ...

Metacommunities and biodiversity patterns in Mediterranean temporary ponds: the role of pond size, network connectivity and dispersal mode 

Tornero Pinilla, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)

We sampled the macrofaunal metacommunities in four networks of Mediterranean temporary ponds covering a wide range of pond sizes and different spatial extents. 1) In the smallest pond network, pond size was not related to ...

Resilience of aquatic metacommunities: implications for disturbance recovery 

Cunillera-Montcusí, David (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)

During the last years, there has been an increase in the number and intensity of disturbances, and their consequences related with global change, which have corroborated the already forecasted scenarios. One example are ...

Els prats de dall de la terra baixa catalana. Caracterització geobotànica, valoració agroambiental i estudi de les relacions fitosociològiques entre els prats dalladors de l'Europa occidental 

Mercadal i Corominas, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-11-13)

The hay meadows in the Mediterranean region of Catalonia. Geobotanical characterisation, agri-environmental assessment, and study of the phytosociological relationships between hay meadows in Western Europe We locate ...

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