Guerrero, Elena (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
Planktonic cnidarians are those species or their stages in the phylum Cnidaria that spent their life in the water column and therefore, are tightly linked to oceanographic dynamics and water mass ...
Solsona Berga, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)
Marine mammals face numerous anthropogenic threats, including fisheries interactions, ocean noise, ship strikes, and marine debris. Monitoring the negative impact on marine mammals through the assessment ...
Fernández Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
Flying squids develop all its life cycle in the water column, as planktonic paralarvae and then as nektonic subadults and adults. In this Ph. D. Thesis, light was shed over several poorly understood ...
Albo-Puigserver, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-18)
Mediterranean marine ecosystems are fundamentally driven by their pelagic communities and small and medium-size pelagic fishes (SMPF) play crucial ecological roles. Although fluctuations of the populations ...
de Vreese, Steffen (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
While marine, anthropogenic noise pollution is a scientific and societal matter of concern, there is limited knowledge on how sea animals, particularly cetaceans, perceive their environment through ...
Morganti, Teresa Maria (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)
Sponges play important roles in the functioning of marine ecosystem in which they are abundant. These roles range from stabilizers of substrate, to acting as major link between benthic and pelagic realms ...
Tilves Matheu, Uxue (Date of defense: 2019-05-16)
Jellyfish are important components of marine ecosystems, being a key link between lower and higher trophic levels. Jellyfish blooms occur sporadically and unpredictably in coastal areas and often have ...
Acevedo Dudley, Melissa Judith (Date of defense: 2016-10-24)
Over the last years, the sightings of the cubomedusa Carybdea marsupialis have increased in the Mediterranean Sea and this has been linked to an increase in its abundance. Consequently, this phD thesis ...
Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)
Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge ...
Ambroso, Stefano (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)
Knowledge of the abundance, distribution patterns, and population ecology of antarctic benthic biodiversity have increased considerably during the last decades. Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity has ...