Santos Santos, Javier H. (Date of defense: 2019-01-17)
The thesis "Ecomorphological discrimination of vertebrate sister species with recent phylogenetic divergence using novel non-destructive morphometric methods” compares morphological evolution during ...
Mendoza Garcia, Marian (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
La intensificación agrícola es una de las principales causas de la pérdida de biodiversidad, así como de los servicios ecosistémicos asociados. La intensificación ha causado cambios en la estructura y ...
Arias del Real, Rebeca (Date of defense: 2020-07-06)
Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are watercourses that naturally and periodically cease to flow. They represent more than half of the global river network and are expanding due to global ...
Domènech Andreu, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)
Unveiling the patterns and identifying the factors that drive community assembly are key questions in ecology and evolution, especially in the current state of climate change and biodiversity loss. ...
Fenollosa Romaní, Erola (Date of defense: 2020-09-09)
Les espècies exòtiques invasores constitueixen una de les majors amenaces a la biodiversitat global. Aquelles àrees que acullen un gran nombre d’espècies natives, i constitueixen per tant punts calents ...
Pérez-Llorca, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
Mediterranean species have to be in constant acclimation to seasonal environmental changes, including variations in water availability, air temperature and solar radiation. Due to global warming, these ...
Mihaela Stefan, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-12-12)
Feather mites are among the most abundant and commonly occurring bird ectosymbionts. They live permanently on the host body, are adapted to inhabit well-defined host microhabitats and are found in almost ...
Sanabria Fernández, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
The degradation of natural diversity results in the erosion of key systemic properties such as resilience, or the capacity to recover from disturbances. Resilience loss leads to an increase in the ...
Burfeid Castellanos, Andrea Montserrat (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)
Benthic diatoms, photoautotrophic, silicate plated, single-celled aquatic organisms dwelling on substrates, have been used in bioindication, since they are good indicators of ecological water state. In ...