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Integrated assessment of environmental pollution using diverse sentinel organisms within Basque marine environments
(2015-10-30)
La contaminación de sistemas acuáticos, debido a su amenaza constante a la salud del medio marino, es uno de los dilemas medioambientales de mayor relevancia. Por ello, diferentes directivas nacionales e internacionales ...
Effects of Spring Temperatures on the Strength of Selection on Timing of Reproduction in a Long-Distance Migratory Bird
(Public Library Science, 2015-04)
Climate change has differentially affected the timing of seasonal events for interacting trophic levels, and this has often led to increased selection on seasonal timing. Yet, the environmental variables driving this ...
Development of practical methodology and indicators for on-farm animal welfare assessment
(2015-05-29)
Work described in the doctoral thesis entitled ¿Development of practical methodology and indicators for on-farm animal welfare assessment¿ was conducted within the frame of Work Package 1 of the AWIN project by Joanna ...
Insight on how fishing bats discern prey and adjust their mechanic and sensorial features during the attack sequence
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-07-21)
Several insectivorous bats have included fish in their diet, yet little is known about the processes underlying this trophic shift. We performed three field experiments with wild fishing bats to address how they manage to ...
Mechanisms of Toxicity of Ag Nanoparticles in Comparison to Bulk and Ionic Ag on Mussel Hemocytes and Gill Cells
(Public Library Science, 2015-06-10)
Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are increasingly used in many products and are expected to end up in the aquatic environment. Mussels have been proposed as marine model species to evaluate NP toxicity in vitro. The objective ...
The Ocean Sampling Day Consortium
(Biomed Central, 2015-06-19)
Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world's oceans. ...
Systematic and evolutionary studies of the terrestrial gastropods Helicoidea and Pyramidula
(2015-12-11)
En esta tesis se estudia la sistemática y evolución de dos taxones de gasterópodos terrestres representativos de la malacofauna europea. Por un lado, se estudia la filogenia e historia evolutiva de la superfamilia Helicoida, ...
Patterns of genetic variation in the endangered European mink (Mustela lutreola L., 1761)
(Biomed Central, 2015-07-17)
Background: The European mink (Mustela lutreola, L. 1761) is a critically endangered mustelid, which inhabits several main river drainages in Europe. Here, we assess the genetic variation of existing populations of this ...
Molecular ecology of european mustelids: Unraveling evolutionary and ecological patterns in Martes and Lutra genera
(2015-06-19)
El objetivo principal de esta tesis es la aplicación de técnicas moleculares para estudiar la genética de poblaciones, la idoneidad y uso de hábitat (habitat suitability) o la filogenia intraespecífica de tres mustélidos ...
Inferring Population Genetic Structure in Widely and Continuously Distributed Carnivores: The Stone Marten (Martes foina) as a Case Study
(Public Library Science, 2015-07-29)
The stone marten is a widely distributed mustelid in the Palaearctic region that exhibits variable habitat preferences in different parts of its range. The species is a Holocene immigrant from southwest Asia which, according ...