Master thesis (from 2008)

2020

Title: Sea urchin barrens facilitate limpet abundance, a weak stabilizing feedback unable to maintain bare rock states.
Student: Laia Illa
Directors: Jordi Boada & Teresa Alcoverro

Title: Ecological state shift dynamics in temperate rocky reefs: understanding the role of barnacle Perforatus perforatus (Bruguière, 1789) on the recovery of macroalgal communities
Student: Àlex Aubach
Directors: Jordi Boada & Teresa Alcoverro

2019

Title: Importancia relativa de los factores bióticos y abióticos en la abundancia de las poblaciones de lucínidos en praderas de angiospermas marinas
Student: Marina Almendro
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Descripción y modelización de cambios de estado en praderas de angiospermas marinas sometidas a estrés por falta de luz
Student: Elvira Mayol
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2018

Title: Recovery of the dugong populations at the Andaman and Nicobar Archipielago
Student:Claudia Cárceles Román
Directors: Teresa Alcoverro & Elrika D’Souza

2016

Title: Resilience in seagrass meadows: seagrass recovery after experimental mechanical disturbances.
Student: Laura Ros
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Efecte de l’hàbitat en els herbívors mediterranis.
Student: Irina Martínez Martínez
Directors: Teresa Alcoverro

Title: Potential synergies between warming and eutrophication on seagrass (Cymodocea nodosa) health and performance.
Student: Tecla Maggioni
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2015

Title: Interactions between fan mussels (Pinna nobilis) and sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividus) in seagrass meadows: the effects of herbivory.
Student: Ana Calvo
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Effect of seascape configuration on the crustacean decapod assemblage inhabiting seagrass meadows in the Catalan coast (North Western Mediterranean).
Student: Marine Baud
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2014

Title: Combined effects of temperatura increase and ammonium concentrations on health and vitality of Cymodocea nodosa.
Student: Eva Gonzalez Guedes
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) populations in a estuarine mediterranean environment: predation and interactionwith the fan mussel Pinna nobilis.
Student: Arturo Lucas Forcadell
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Eutrophication and patch size effect on epifaunal community in the seagrass (Cymodocea nodosa) meadows.
Student: Cristina Molins
Directors: Marta Pérez

2013

Title: Interactions between bivalves and seagrasses: lucinid abundance along an eutrophication gradient
Student: Laura Solé
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Landscape configuration effects on detritus dynamics in seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadows.
Student: Andreu Dalmau
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2012

Title: Effects of increasing temperatures on plant-herbivore interactions: an experimental approach based on the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa.
Student: Eva Cerezo
Directors: Fiona Tomás & Javier Romero

Title: Faunal characterization of the Cymodocea nodosa meadows from Alfacs Bay (Ebro delta) along a eutrophication gradient.
Student: Daniel Pinchete
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Distribution and abundance of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus in transitional waters: larval stage, settlement and recruitment
Student: Yaiza Ontoria
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Distribution and abundance of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus in transitional waters: recruitment, adult populations and predation pressure.
Student: Anna Sans
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Is the strength of predator-prey interactions in macrophyte communities driven by habitat structure or regional differences in predator guilds?
Student: Simone Farina
Directors: Teresa Alcoverro & Javier Romero

Title: The ubiquity of predation as a process in seagrass and in rocky systems across the NW Mediterranean.
Student: Jordi Boada
Directors: Teresa Alcoverro & Javier Romero

2011

Title: Land use in the coastal zone as determinant of water quality of coastal waters
Student: Antonio Gastón
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Landscape configuration effects on detritus dynamics in seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadows.
Student: Isabel Liza
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2010

Title: Tolerance of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa to copper exposure
Student: Daniel Cervantes
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

Title: Interannual variation in metrics and reference conditions used in CYMOX (Cymodocea nodosa quality index).
Student: Gisela Lorca
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2009

Title: Detecting changes in ecosystems: interanual variability in 22 metrics fro the seagrass Posidonia oceanica.
Student: Guillem Roca
Directors: Teresa Alcoverro & Javier Romero

Title: Competition or niche segregation: trophic interactions between Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758)y Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) in the Western Mediterranean.
Student: Álex García-Cisneros
Directors: Creu Palacín & Javier Romero

Title: Assessing the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa sensitivity to hypersaline conditions.
Student: Jordi Pagès
Directors: Javier Romero & Marta Pérez

Title: Seagrass chlorophyll fluorescence as a bioindicator of anthropogenic impact in coastal waters.
Student: Alessandro Gera
Directors: Teresa Alcoverro & Javier Romero

Title: Coupling between mortality and recruitment in the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa.
Student: Marta Carreras
Directors: Marta Pérez & Javier Romero

2008

Title: Caulerpa prolifera as bioindicator of marine waters quality.
Student: Laura Navarro
Directors: Marta Pérez