Puig-Gironès, Roger (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
Wildfires are natural perturbations that affect the structure of the landscape and biodiversity. In the Mediterranean basin, wildfires occur especially in hot seasons. However, in recent years the number ...
Souza, Edson Roberto da (Date of defense: 2015-07-29)
Dada la importancia de ilustraciones científicas en los procesos de aprendizaje de contenidos geológicos, se investigó posibles relaciones entre su potencial educativo y sus etapas de producción en los ...
Ortiz Álvarez, Rüdiger (Date of defense: 2018-05-18)
The microbial metacommunity of the Pyrenees mountain range has never been studied at the regional level. In this PhD thesis, the main goal is to describe the taxonomic diversity and reveal the ecological ...
Casas Ruiz, Joan Pere (Date of defense: 2017-05-31)
In river networks, dissolved organic matter (DOM) constitutes the major pool of organic carbon, and plays a key role as energy source and modulator of toxic substances availability. In this thesis, Joan ...
Bou Manobens, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-04-11)
The sessile oak Quercus petraea is widespread in Central Europe. The populations in the NE Iberian Peninsula are at the southernmost limit of the species range, in the most Mediterranean-type conditions ...
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 ...
Huerta Buitrago, Belinda (Date of defense: 2016-04-12)
Occurrence, fate, and adverse effects of emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment have become a matter of concern, since these compounds have been persistently detected in wastewater treatment ...
Villegas Hernández, Harold O. (Date of defense: 2015-09-04)
A direct consequence of sea warming in the Mediterranean is a increase in the abundance of thermo-tolerant species fish species such as Sphyraena viridensis, Pomadasys incisus, Pomatomus saltatrix and ...
Font Payeras, Toni (Date of defense: 2014-05-13)
La pesca recreativa és una de les activitats turístiques més practicades a les zones costaneres arreu del món, implicant a un gran nombre de persones i per tant una pressió sobre els recursos gens ...
Bernal Montolio, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2013-07-22)
Climatic models predict higher fluxes of UV-B radiation and a decrease in summer precipitation in the near future for the Mediterranean region. The UV radiation can be an oxidative stress factor for ...