Pueyo Puntí, Salvador (Date of defense: 2003-03-25)
This work is the result of a search for general (or nearly general) regularities at ecosystem level, and an exploration of their practical relevance in our relations with the environment.<br/>I began ...
Canals Merseburger, Mª Goretti (Date of defense: 2006-04-24)
A full understanding of nutrient cycling in lotic ecosystems is crucial given the increasing influence of human activities on the eutrophication of streams and rivers. However, existing knowledge about ...
Catalán Alemany, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2003-05-30)
The high variability in the recruitment of marine fishes is probably explained by small fluctuations in the mortality rates of early developmental stages. A popular proxy for the potential mortality of ...
Prado Villegas, Patricia (Date of defense: 2007-02-23)
La revaluació a gran escala espacial (> de 300 Km) i mitjançant mètodes de quantificació directa, del impacte de l'herbivorisme en els ecosistemes de <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> va revelar pèrdues de ...
Andreu Hayles, Laia (Date of defense: 2007-10-25)
Two main purposes divided this Thesis into two parts, taking into account that the need of understanding current climatic fluctuations is still an important request of population living in the 21st ...
Marcé Romero, Rafael (Date of defense: 2007-05-29)
The role of the materials coming from the watershed on the reservoir water quality is an emergent area of high scientific interest with many practical implications. In this study we investigated the ...
Hereu Fina, Bernat (Date of defense: 2007-04-28)
The discipline of ecology is habitually divided up into a whole range of different specialities, and this thesis forms part of what is commonly known as "community ecology" (Diamond and Case 1986). To ...
Vilalta Baliellas, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2004-07-26)
The role of natural biofilms affecting the water quality in rivers has been the main theme in this study. Firstly, the study developed the capacity of biofilms in retention and/or production of DOC. ...
Ventura Oller, Marc (Date of defense: 2005-01-28)
The aim of this thesis was to describe the life history variability of the assemblage of crustacean zooplankton in Lake Redon, with special emphasis in their life-cycles, ecological characteristics and ...
Bartumeus i Ferré, Frederic (Date of defense: 2005-06-17)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:<br/><br/>The general aim of this thesis was to develop a theoretical framework in order to study large-scale animal movements and/or dispersal processes as random search strategies. ...