New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani
Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary approach, from understanding global diversity patterns to evaluating the ecological response...
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ftubarcelona:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/668538 2023-12-24T10:25:06+01:00 New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani Pagès Escolà, Marta Linares Prats, Cristina Hereu Fina, Bernat Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals 2019-12-09 application/pdf 305 p. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668538 eng eng Universitat de Barcelona http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668538 L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) Briozous Briozoos Bryozoa Influència de l'home en la natura Influència del hombre sobre la naturaleza Effect of human beings on nature Ecologia marina Ecología marina Marine ecology Ciències Experimentals i Matemàtiques 574 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftubarcelona 2023-11-30T06:33:42Z Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary approach, from understanding global diversity patterns to evaluating the ecological responses of species to different impacts in order to protect marine ecosystems. In this thesis, we focused on bryozoans, an abundant group of sessile marine invertebrates distributed worldwide, but generally understudied. Accordingly, in this thesis we provide different approaches to understand discovery and macroecological patterns at global scales, and the response of species to different stressors at local scales, combining the use of open databases, the in situ monitoring of natural populations, experiments in aquaria and the development of restoration techniques. At global scale, in Chapter I we unraveled discovery patterns of fossil and extant bryozoans and showed the highest number of fossil species described, highlighting that the current biodiversity represents only a small proportion of Earth’s past biodiversity. Beyond these differences, both groups showed an increase in the taxonomic effort during the past century. Despite this progress, future projections of discovery patterns of both groups showed a large proportion of species remaining to be discovered by the final of this century. In Chapter II, most of the global diversity patterns of marine sessile groups, including bryozoans, showed a non-unimodal latitudinal pattern with a dip in the number of species at the equator and a higher diversity in the Southern ocean. Moreover, this region will be less affected by global warming at the final of this century. In contrast, our analyses showed that the most sampled region for both marine sessile species and bryozoans was North Temperate Atlantic, highlighting the importance to quantify environmental drivers considering sampling effort biases. For this reason, we tested the effect of using the popular method of ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Southern Ocean Universitat de Barcelona: Theses and Dissertations Online (TDX) Southern Ocean |
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Marine ecosystems are directly threatened by multiple and interactive human stressors at global and local scales. Hence, it is vital to study biodiversity and ecological patterns through a multi-disciplinary approach, from understanding global diversity patterns to evaluating the ecological responses of species to different impacts in order to protect marine ecosystems. In this thesis, we focused on bryozoans, an abundant group of sessile marine invertebrates distributed worldwide, but generally understudied. Accordingly, in this thesis we provide different approaches to understand discovery and macroecological patterns at global scales, and the response of species to different stressors at local scales, combining the use of open databases, the in situ monitoring of natural populations, experiments in aquaria and the development of restoration techniques. At global scale, in Chapter I we unraveled discovery patterns of fossil and extant bryozoans and showed the highest number of fossil species described, highlighting that the current biodiversity represents only a small proportion of Earth’s past biodiversity. Beyond these differences, both groups showed an increase in the taxonomic effort during the past century. Despite this progress, future projections of discovery patterns of both groups showed a large proportion of species remaining to be discovered by the final of this century. In Chapter II, most of the global diversity patterns of marine sessile groups, including bryozoans, showed a non-unimodal latitudinal pattern with a dip in the number of species at the equator and a higher diversity in the Southern ocean. Moreover, this region will be less affected by global warming at the final of this century. In contrast, our analyses showed that the most sampled region for both marine sessile species and bryozoans was North Temperate Atlantic, highlighting the importance to quantify environmental drivers considering sampling effort biases. For this reason, we tested the effect of using the popular method of ... |
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Linares Prats, Cristina Hereu Fina, Bernat Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals |
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New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani |
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New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani |
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New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani |
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New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani |
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New insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the Mediterranean Sea = Noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al Mar Mediterrani |
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new insights into the ecology and conservation of bryozoans: from global diversity patterns to the responses to anthropogenic stressors in the mediterranean sea = noves aproximacions a l’ecologia i conservació dels briozous: des dels patrons globals de diversitat fins les respostes als impactes humans al mar mediterrani |
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