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 ...
Cortés Serra, Verònica (Date of defense: 2018-02-05)
La mortalitat per captura accidental en les pesqueres de palangre representa una de les principals amenaces per a nombroses espècies d’ocells marins a nivell mundial. En el Mediterrani, aquesta mortalitat ...
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 ...
Reyes González, José Manuel de los (Date of defense: 2021-05-26)
The revolution in biologging and satellite telemetry technologies in the last two decades has led to a new era in seabird research. This thesis brings new insights into the spatial ecology and migration ...
Neto Militao, Teresa Afonso (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
Animal migration is an amazing widespread phenomenon that forms an essential component of the animal life history. Animals usually migrate to take advantages of changes in resource availability in space ...
Zango Palau, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-02-16)
Individual specialization refers to individuals using different portions of the total ecological niche of the population. The fact that individuals segregate into different strategies has important ...