Advancement of methods for passive acoustic monitoring : a framework for the study of deep-diving cetacean 

    Solsona Berga, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)

    Marine mammals face numerous anthropogenic threats, including fisheries interactions, ocean noise, ship strikes, and marine debris. Monitoring the negative impact on marine mammals through the assessment of population ...

    Biological interactions between fish and jellyfish in the northwester Mediterranean 

    Tilves Matheu, Uxue (Date of defense: 2019-05-16)

    Jellyfish are important components of marine ecosystems, being a key link between lower and higher trophic levels. Jellyfish blooms occur sporadically and unpredictably in coastal areas and often have important socio-economic ...

    Biology, ecology and ecophysiology of the box jellyfish Carybdea marsupialis (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) = Biologia, ecologia i ecofisiologia de la cubomedusa Carybdea marsupialis (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) 

    Acevedo Dudley, Melissa Judith (Date of defense: 2016-10-24)

    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 ...

    Distribution patterns and abundance of Antarctic pristine benthic communities 

    Ambroso, Stefano (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)

    Knowledge of the abundance, distribution patterns, and population ecology of antarctic benthic biodiversity have increased considerably during the last decades. Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity has been sampled primarily ...

    Ecological and functional role of small and medium pelagic fish in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea : Rol ecológico y funcional de los peces pelágicos pequeños y medianos en el noroeste del mar Mediterráneo 

    Albo-Puigserver, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-10-18)

    Mediterranean marine ecosystems are fundamentally driven by their pelagic communities and small and medium-size pelagic fishes (SMPF) play crucial ecological roles. Although fluctuations of the populations of these organisms ...

    Exploration and discovery of sponge assemblages on the continental shelf and slope of the Catalano-Balearic Sea by means of non-invasive techniques 

    Santín Muriel, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)

    Sponge assemblages dominate several distinctive, hard-bottom environments, being one of the most important structural organisms at several locations around the world. Although the Mediterranean sponge fauna is among the ...

    In situ direct study of filtration and respiration rate of Mediterranean sponges = Estudio in situ de la filtración y la respiración de esponjas mediterráneas 

    Morganti, Teresa Maria (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)

    Sponges play important roles in the functioning of marine ecosystem in which they are abundant. These roles range from stabilizers of substrate, to acting as major link between benthic and pelagic realms by filtering large ...

    Morpho-functionality of the toothed whale external ear canal 

    de Vreese, Steffen (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)

    While marine, anthropogenic noise pollution is a scientific and societal matter of concern, there is limited knowledge on how sea animals, particularly cetaceans, perceive their environment through sounds. Toothed whales, ...

    An onto-phylogenetic journey through the life history of flying squids (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) 

    Fernández Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)

    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 ...

    Retinoic acid signaling pathway : gene regulation during the onset of puberty in the European sea bass. 

    Medina Henríquez, Paula Javiera (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)

    European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) aquaculture is a thriving industry in Spain where it reached about 23,500 t and a market value of approximately 133 million euros. However, most of the sea bass farms produce a high ...

    Variability of the planktonic cnidarian community at different spatio-temporal scales along the Catalan coast (Northwestern Mediterranean) 

    Guerrero, Elena (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)

    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 ...