Morera Pujol, Virginia (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
Movement is a widespread characteristic in the animal kingdom —occurring at many spatiotemporal scales— with consequences at an individual, population, species, and even ecosystem level. It is a very ...
Pereira de Felipe, Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Sexual Segregation (SS) is a phenomenon that occurs across a wide range of animal species, and that had been broadly categorized in spatial/habitat segregation and social segregation. SS of a given ...
Sitjà Poch, Cèlia (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
The general outline of this thesis was to assess the potential of the Mediterranean water masses to transport deep-sea fauna towards the Atlantic Ocean. By examining the effects that the bathyal water ...
Medrano Cuevas, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
All marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea are highly threatened by anthropogenic stressors that can alter their structure and function, especially in rocky shores. Moreover, extreme climate events ...
Ontoria Gómez, Yaiza (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)
Coastal ecosystems are highly threatened worldwide by multiple anthropogenic stressors that act at a range of spatial scales, from local to the global, and adversely affect their ecological functions ...
Montseny Cuscó, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Cold-water coral (CWC) habitats dwell on continental shelves, slopes, canyons, seamounts, and ridge systems around the world’s oceans, from 50 m to depths up to 4000 m. CWC species provide heterogeneous ...