Colin Muñoz, Nicole (Date of defense: 2017-04-21)
Los ríos mediterráneos han experimentado una larga historia de impactos antropogénicos, incluyendo la captación de agua, la contaminación y la liberación de especies no nativas. Es crítico detectar, ...
Soria Extremera, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
Temporary rivers (TRs) are dynamic systems that typically shift between flowing, disconnected-pools and dry phases, and represent nearly 50% of the current global river network. Despite TRs support ...
Bastias Álamo, Elliot (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)
Understanding the dynamics of leaf litter inputs in streams involves assessment of retention, spatial distribution and processing of leaf litter inputs. However, leaf litter dynamics in streams has ...
Guarch Ribot, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is an important source of carbon for aquatic microorganisms and it regulates many biogeochemical processes. Therefore, changes in river DOM concentration and properties ...
Harjung, Astrid (Date of defense: 2018-04-03)
Headwater streams essentially link the terrestrial and the aquatic carbon cycle because they transport terrestrial organic and inorganic carbon downstream towards the oceans. However, most of these ...
Poblador Ibáñez, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
During the last decades, most of the studies based on climate change effects on vegetation physiology have focused on upland forests and species at their border of distribution, since, in both conditions, ...
Granados Pérez, Verónica (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
Water availability is the primary driver of dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES). Therefore, current research manifests the global influence of ...
Puértolas i Domènech, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
La recuperació d’espais fluvials és una activitat que ha anat en augment en els darrers anys però no disposava de mètodes d’avaluació que n’orientessin el disseny. L’objectiu de la tesi ha estat explorar ...
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 ...