Mosquera Vintimilla, Pablo (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)
[eng] High-mountain tropical lakes in the South American continent are located in the upper part of the Andes range in the equatorial zone (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia), altitudinally, ...
Masó Ferrerons, Guillem (Date of defense: 2019-04-25)
A central theme in ecology and evolution is to understand whether and how species respond to environmental changes. The amount of studies focusing on how species might cope with climate change has been ...
Moles, Juan (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)
This thesis covers three important aspects of Antarctic heterobranchs: ecology, taxonomy, and systematics. The first section deals with ecological interactions of several nudibranchs. In Chapter 1, we ...
Giménez, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis fills important gaps of knowledge that will help to develop a proper conservation strategy for cetaceans in southern Iberian waters. We were able to define different ecological management ...
Soria Extremera, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
Temporary rivers (TRs) are dynamic systems that typically shift between flowing, disconnected-pools and dry phases, and represent nearly 50% of the current global river network. Despite TRs support ...
Ramos de Fuentes, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
Rice (Oryza sativa) is the most important crop for human direct consumption, but its yield and production are strongly affected by biotic and abiotic stresses. Rice is the most salt-sensitive cereal and ...
Pintanel Costa, Pol (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
Temperature is likely to be one of the most important abiotic factors given how it affects the physiology of the whole organism and as a consequence, it has an essential role in ecology and evolution. ...
Badia Boher, Jaume Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] In this thesis, we took advantage of recent advances in the degree of sophistication and flexibility of population models to study the population dynamics and conservation of long-lived species. ...
Rezzouk, Fatima Zahra (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
[eng] Wheat is a major staple food worldwide. Its cultural and economic importance is mainly highlighted in the Mediterranean region, among other regions of the world. However, wheat production is ...
Villastrigo Carbajo, Adrián (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Understanding the evolutionary processes underlying extant biodiversity may help us to comprehend why species richness is not equally distributed between clades. One of the main causes to explain the ...