Sanmartí Boixeda, Neus (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Our world is subjected to a panoply of drivers of change. In this context, the understanding on how our biosphere resists, absorbs or is altered by the changes, appears as a hot question in ecology. In ...
Peña Lozano, Elionora (Date of defense: 2020-11-13)
Based on the background showing i) that obesity have a polygenic nature with the implication of different genes of minor effect and lifestyle factors; ii) the high variability between individuals in ...
Tonzo, Vanina (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
Unraveling the proximate processes that have shaped genetic variation of populations and led to lineage diversification and speciation is fundamental to understand the origin of present-day biodiversity ...
Muñoz Roldán, Paula (Date of defense: 2020-04-24)
Environmental constraints and developmental processes in plants can lead to light energy excess in chloroplasts by lowering the threshold at which light becomes saturating by a lack of electron acceptors ...
Ferreres Contreras, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
Rice belongs to the Poaceae family and Oryza genus. The genus Oryza comprehends 24 species, being 22 wild and 2 cultivated. These two cultivated species correspond to Oryza sativa, originated in Asia, ...
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 ...
Zajková, Zuzana (Date of defense: 2020-01-20)
Movement is a fundamental component of behaviour and thus both are inextricably linked. Variation in movement patterns usually reflects different behaviours, including those most glaring, such as foraging, ...
Morera Pujol, Virginia (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
Movement is a widespread characteristic in the animal kingdom —occurring at many spatiotemporal scales— with consequences at an individual, population, species, and even ecosystem level. It is a very ...
Pereira de Felipe, Fernanda (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Sexual Segregation (SS) is a phenomenon that occurs across a wide range of animal species, and that had been broadly categorized in spatial/habitat segregation and social segregation. SS of a given ...
Sitjà Poch, Cèlia (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
The general outline of this thesis was to assess the potential of the Mediterranean water masses to transport deep-sea fauna towards the Atlantic Ocean. By examining the effects that the bathyal water ...