Taboada Moreno, Sergio (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
Esta tesis cubre diferentes aspectos de los invertebrados marinos bentónicos de la Antártida. Se trata de una tesis multidisciplinar presentada en formato artículos en la que se hacen las siguientes ...
Afán Asencio, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-10-10)
Seabirds have evolved within an open and dynamic environment, the ocean. As meso-top predators, seabirds are greatly influenced by the oceanographic conditions driving marine productivity, and therefore, ...
Stegun Vidigal, Vera Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
The short-tailed opossums of the genus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830 are small-bodied semifossorial marsupials which inhabit almost all major biomes of South America up to 2200 m. Even though it is one of ...
García-Tarrasón, Manuel (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
The results presented in this thesis have shown the strong dependence of Audouin’s gull from the Ebro Delta on fisheries. Foraging movements of breeding birds showed a great association with fishing ...
Mora de Checa, Elisa (Date of defense: 2015-12-14)
Mygalomorphs is a cosmopolitan group that inhabits all the continents except Antarctica. The group and has been commonly described as ‘primitive’ because of the retention of plesiomorphic characters, ...
Vighi, Morgana (Date of defense: 2016-01-19)
Cetaceans have historically been object of heavy exploitation, and are still currently subject to different threats. For conservation and management purposes, most of the large cetacean populations have ...
Alemany Sierra, Silvia (Date of defense: 2013-04-15)
The present dissertation, which can be framed in the fields of behavioural and psychiatric genetics, was aimed to study how early environmental factors such as parental negativity and childhood adversity, ...
Arias Martorell, Júlia (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)
The Doctoral Thesis entitled "the glenohumeral joint of hominoid primates: locomotor Correlates, anatomical variation and evolution" is about the anatomical adaptations in the shoulder joint (glenohumeral ...
Mitjans Niubó, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
Severe mental disorders, such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Bipolar Disorder (BD) and Schizophrenia (SCZ), represent a huge burden to society, reflecting the limited efficacy of current drug ...
Sacristán Soriano, Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-10-04)
Phylum Porifera (Grant, 1836) are sessile metazoans with a differentiated inhalant and exhalant aquiferous system with external pores. Lacking a tissue grade of construction, sponges can reach two ...