Roca Carceller, Guillem (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Nearshore marine ecosystems like seagrass meadows face a wide range of anthropogenic influences, impacting the system at different spatial and temporal scales. Managing these systems in the face of these ...
Rodríguez Lozano, Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Wildfires are expected to increase in frequency and intensity because of climate change and changes in land use and management. In last decades, the research on fire effects on aquatic systems has grown, ...
Martínez Ricart, Aurora (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)
Habitats commonly occur as more or less interconnected patches constituting spatial heterogeneous mosaics. Connectivity and interactions among habitats can determine their functioning. Therefore, ...
Prat i Fornells, Narcís (Date of defense: 1978-06-21)
Se estudian los quironómidos desde diferentes ángulos tanto su sistemática como algunos aspectos de su ecología en los embalses españoles. La tesis se divide en tres partes: dos de sistemática y una de ...
Ejarque Gonzalez, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)
Rivers play a key role in the global biogeochemical functioning, as they link the biogeochemical cycles of the terrestrial and oceanic systems. In the framework of the carbon cycle, streams and rivers ...
Catalán García, Núria (Date of defense: 2013-09-13)
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a primary source of organic carbon in aquatic ecosystems. Inland waters actively transform DOM, having a relevant effect on the regional and global carbon budgets. DOM ...