Theses 2021

Influence of flow alteration and metal pollution on stream biota: from species to community- level responses

Autor: Francesc Rubio-Gracia

Directora de tesi: Helena Guasch

Universitat de Girona

 

Unraveling the success of invaders: Biotic and abiotic factors determining the invasibility of Mediterranean benthic assemblages by Caulerpa cylindracea

Autor: Jorge Santamaría Pérez

Directors de tesi: Emma Cebrian

Universitat de Girona

 

The role of behavioural and feedback mechanisms in mediating herbivory processes in Mediterranean seagrass ecosystems

Student: Xavier Buñuel

PhD Advisors: Teresa Alcoverro i Jordi F. Pagès

Universitat de Barcelona

 

Linking phylogeography and recent dispersal in high mountains: Insights from two Iberian amphibians

Student: Federica Lucati

PhD Advisors:  Rui Revelo i Marc Ventura.

Universidade de Lisboa

 

Mediterranean macroalgal forests under threat: The effects of ongoing climate change and design of restoration methods

Student: Jana Verdura

PhD Advisor: Emma Cebrian i Kike Ballesteros

Universitat de Girona

 

The environmental change in coastal ecosystems during the Late Holocene as recorded in seagrass sedimentary archives

Student: Carmen Leiva Dueñas

PhD Advisor: Miguel Ángel Mateo Mínguez

Universitat de Barcelona

 

Biogeochemistry of marine phanerogams soils

Student: Nerea Piñeiro Juncal

PhD Advisors: Miquel Ángel Mateo & Antonio Martínez Cortizas

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

 

De la genómica a la modelización: estudios poblacionales a nivel individual en peces litorales del Mediterráneo Occidental

Student: Hèctor Torrado

PhD Advisor: Enrique Macpherson

Universitat de Barcelona

 

Biodiversidad, biogeografía y patrones evolutivos en crustáceos (Anomura, Galatheoidea) de zonas tropicales y templadas

Student: Paula C. Rodríguez Flores

PhD Advisor: Enrique Macpherson

Universitat de Barcelona

 

Understanding resilience through biodiversity: developing systemic tolos for marine conservation in temperate rocky reefs

Student: José Manuel Sanabria

PhD Advisor: Mikel Becerro

Universitat de Barcelona

 

Assessment of the Spanish marine social-ecological associations and its implication for integrated management

Student: Natali Lazzari

PhD Advisor: Mikel Becerro

Universitat de Barcelona