Zango Palau, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-02-16)
Individual specialization refers to individuals using different portions of the total ecological niche of the population. The fact that individuals segregate into different strategies has important ...
Lobato Vila, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
The oak cynipid inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini, Ceroptresini) are a group of specialized endophytophagous microhymenopterans that develop inside galls induced mainly by other cynipids on ...
Sanabria Fernández, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
The degradation of natural diversity results in the erosion of key systemic properties such as resilience, or the capacity to recover from disturbances. Resilience loss leads to an increase in the ...
Soler Garcia, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-07-13)
Psychotic disorders are psychiatric conditions with a worldwide prevalence of around 4% and a tremendous personal, economic and social burden. As complex phenotypes, psychotic disorders are caused by ...
Lazzari, Natali (Date of defense: 2021-01-18)
The alarming rate of marine biodiversity loss calls for new strategies of understanding and accounting for human-nature relationships. Anthropogenic impacts are the main drivers of changes in coastal ...
Cera Rull, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
Gypsophile species are edaphic endemics of gypsum soils, and they are considered specialists of this stressful substrate. Gypsum endemics from different families and regions of the world tend to show a ...
Gómez Gras, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest and most pervasive threats that our natural heritage will have to face in the coming decades. Together with other anthropogenic pressures such as ...
Khan, Hares (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Inland waters are relevant components of the global carbon cycle acting as hot spots for biogeochemical processes by which carbon is stored, transformed, and outgassed to the atmosphere. Therefore, less ...