Rizzo, Valeria (Date of defense: 2015-10-08)
The general aim of this dissertation is to investigate the evolution, the diversification and some ecological traits of the species of the strictly subterranean genus Troglocharinus Reitter, 1908. ...
Rivera Rondón, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-02-20)
Lakes are ecosystems exposed to the combined influence of climate and catchment processes. Lakes collect and archive evidence of these forcings in their sediments through of a complex interaction with ...
Galván Candela, Juan Diego (Date of defense: 2014-01-21)
Iberian Pinus uncinata tree-growth variability and its responses to climate are analyzed by means of dendrochonological methods from an individual- to a population-level scale across its distribution ...
Serrano i Gras, Eduard (Date of defense: 2018-02-19)
Shallow-water rocky ecosystems in temperate areas are dominated by macroalgae, whilst zooxanthellate corals are extremely rare. In an era of global change, sea warming plays a crucial role in the ...
Pagès Fauria, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-09-16)
Overall, this thesis aims at approaching macrophyte herbivory and community ecology from a behavioural landscape perspective. Our study system, the seascape mosaic of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows ...
Chaparro Mendivelso, Hooz Angela (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
This thesis analyzed the dynamics of tree radial growth at different time-scales in relation to climate and drought in two tropical dry forests (TDFs) from Colombia (Tuluá) and Bolivia (INPA). The ...
Antich González, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-10-24)
[eng] Ecosystem biomonitoring is crucial for proper management of natural communities during the Anthropocene era. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, DNA metabarcoding has been proposed as ...
Garate Amenabarro, Leyre (Date of defense: 2017-09-01)
El estudio se centra la filogenia, biología y ecología de la demosponja Hemimycale columella y su simbiosis con una bacteria calcificadora (calcibacteria). Posteriormente se incorporaron otras especies ...
Carella, Mirco (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
The Antarctic bottoms harbour rich communities of sponges, which play an important role in structuring benthic habitats. Many Antarctic sponge species have been discovered in the past but most of them ...
Casso Carrasco, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Invasive species constitute a major threat to global biodiversity and cause important economic losses and ecological impacts. In the marine realm, ascidians include several aggressive invasive species, ...