Björk, Johannes (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
Microbes form intricate and intimate relationships with most animals and plants, many of which are crucial for host development, health and functioning. Microbe--host symbiotic associations are poorly ...
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 ...
Cerro Gálvez, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-09-19)
Increasing amounts of organic synthetic chemicals are currently emitted to the environment by human activities. The more recalcitrant fraction of this pollutant mixture reaches marine ecosystems mainly ...
Rivetti, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)
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 ...
Espriu, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
Nowadays nuclear power plants (NPP) and dedicated facilities are storing the spent nuclear fuel (SNF). In the case of Spain, the NPP have enough space in their pools to keep storing the SNF produced ...
Dávila Ordóñez, Maria Gabriela (Date of defense: 2015-11-06)
A test site for CO2 geological storage is situated in Hontomín (Burgos, northern Spain) with a reservoir rock that is mainly composed of limestone. The reservoir rock is a deep saline aquifer, which ...
Marín Beltrán, Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
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 ...
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 ...
De Vriendt, Kevin (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Seawater intrusion presents one of the most unique and ubiquitous groundwater problems in the field of hydrogeology. Its complex boundary conditions coupled with variable density flow results in non-uniform ...
Quattrocchi, Federico (Date of defense: 2017-10-24)
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 ...