Programa de Doctorat en Ciències del Mar: Recent submissions
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The Mediterranean outflow water : transformations and pathways into the Gulf of Cádiz
The Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) is a dense (¿>1028.5 kg/m3), saline (38.5 g/kg) ocean stream originated in the evaporative Mediterranean basin flowing westward past Espartel Sill as a fast (>1 m/s) and often unstable ...
Analysis of the ocean dynamics in a wind-jet region using high-resolution models
The water currents and the wave field at the Catalan coast (in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea) are investigated. However, the main research is focused at the northern margin of the Ebro Shelf, where there is a relatively ...
Effects of atmospheric deposition on microbial dynamics and composition in two anthropogenically-influenced contrasted coastal sites
The Mediterranean Sea is an oligotrophic basin, while the atmosphere above is affected by continuous emissions of anthropogenic aerosols and episodic Saharan dust events. These atmospheric inputs finally deposit (as wet ...
Floating plastic debris in the central and western Mediterranean sea : current status and its social perception
Plastics are currently one of the most widely distributed litter in marine ecosystems worldwide. The floating fraction of these debris are estimated to represent about 1% of the plastics that enter into the marine environment ...
An onto-phylogenetic journey through the life history of flying squids (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae)
Flying squids develop all its life cycle in the water column, as planktonic paralarvae and then as nektonic subadults and adults. In this Ph. D. Thesis, light was shed over several poorly understood aspects of the ontogeny ...
Nuevas aproximaciones toxicológicas para la detección de disruptores endocrinos y lipídicos en ecosistemas mediterráneos y sistemas celulares
Chemical compounds derived from human activities continuously reach aquatic systems, where they are available to the organisms that inhabit them. Traditionally, environmental risk assessment has been based on the chemical ...
Diversity, ecology and evolution of marine diazotrophic microorganisms
Biological N2 fixation, the reduction of dinitrogen (N2) gas to biologically available nitrogen, is a fundamental process since it represents a source of new nitrogen for marine life in areas where this important element ...
Biomarcadors paleoclimàtics a la conca de la Guaiana (Atlàntic tropical occidental)
The main objective of this thesis is the study of a marine sediment core located in front of French Guiana (7°48’75’’N i 53°0’80’’W -1233m bsl and 39m length), in northern South America. The last 415,000 years were studied ...
Modelling the relationships of medium and long-term variations of the anchovy and sardine catches in the Catalan Sea (NW Mediterranean) with the environmental drivers
The understanding of the driving forces involved in the abundance fluctuation of fish populations is an important requirement for conservation and management, especially in the context of environmental changes. In the North ...
Opening the black box of coastal inshore waters in the NW Mediterranean Sea : environmental quality tools and assessment
Coastal inshore waters (CIW) are defined as the area of coastal waters between 0 and 200 m from the shoreline. They only represent < 1% of coastal waters, even though they are of main ecological, social, and economic ...
Variability of the planktonic cnidarian community at different spatio-temporal scales along the Catalan coast (Northwestern Mediterranean)
Planktonic cnidarians are those species or their stages in the phylum Cnidaria that spent their life in the water column and therefore, are tightly linked to oceanographic dynamics and water mass structures, such as fronts ...
The use of new multiparametric observatory platforms for the remote monitoring and exploration of deep-sea ecosystems at day-night and seasonal temporal scales
Traditional sampling technologies such as trawling but also novel ones as ROV surveying are oriented toward a high spatial coverage without repeating data collection at fixed seabed windows. The temporal repetition is often ...
The coastal risk landscape application on the Catalan coast
Coastal zones concentrate an elevated number of values both natural and socio-economic, making them very vulnerable to the potential effects of natural hazards. Therefore, effective risk management requires a holistic ...
Host-parasite interactions : the Parvilucifera sinerae model in marine microalgae
Parasitism is a widespread interaction that has evolved practically in all branches of the tree of life. It has historically been neglected in studies of marine microbial systems, limiting our understanding of marine food ...
New observational approaches for optically complex waters based on high-resolution transmissometry
There is a growing concern for protection and conservation of coastal ecosystems, which require a proper understanding of ecosystem dynamics and the ability to detect and predict changes in the ecosystem state. For this ...
The use of integrative approaches to characterize new mechanisms of toxicity of pollutants in the aquatic environment
Anthropogenic pollution represents a major concern for aquatic ecosystem, which has been affected by a complex cocktail of heterogeneous compounds that may provoke significant toxic effects to the living organisms. Among ...
Natural and anthropogenic control of water quality of an Amazon estuary : the Caeté estuary (Brazil)
In the Amazon region, few data are available on the impacts caused by the urban settlements found in the proximity of estuaries. In the estuary of the Caeté River, the focus of the present study, the nutrient input is ...
Saharan dust deposition effects on production in the Mediterranean Sea
The potential capacity of fertilization of surface oceans by atmospheric deposition is of scientific interest. This is especially true in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea. Its surface waters are extremely poor in nutrients ...
Ecological study of benthic communities in the continental shelf and upper slope in the Menorca Channel (North Western Mediterranean)
Technological development and increased availability of remotely operated vehicles and manned submersibles have significantly increased accessibility to deep environments revealing the presence of rich and diverse macrobenthic ...
Biology, ecology and ecophysiology of the box jellyfish Carybdea marsupialis (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) = Biologia, ecologia i ecofisiologia de la cubomedusa Carybdea marsupialis (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)
Over the last years, the sightings of the cubomedusa Carybdea marsupialis have increased in the Mediterranean Sea and this has been linked to an increase in its abundance. Consequently, this phD thesis addresses some ...
