Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap by Title
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Big data insights into the distribution and evolution of tropical diversity
(2018-04-06)Tropical America (the Neotropics) and tropical Africa have comparable climate and share a geological history as parts of Gondwana. Nevertheless, the Neotropics today harbour roughly three times more flowering plant species ... -
Biochemical studies of the essential Clp protease in cyanobacteria and its associated adaptor proteins
(2014-10-03)Proteins are an essential part of all organisms and are involved in many cellular processes. To regulate the function of proteins and facilitate their removal when damaged or otherwise compromised, sophisticated control ... -
Biologisk mångfald i läroböcker i biologi
(2014-10-17)The aim of this thesis is to analyse offered meaning, that is, what and how subject content is communicated to the recipients. In this case the subject content is biological diversity and the communicative artefacts are ... -
Biomarkers for assessing benthic pollution impacts in a subtropical estuary, Mozambique
(2015-05-11)This thesis focuses on the marine environment in a subtropical estuary and particularly on exploring a suite of easy-to-use, cost effective and environmentally valid biological response tools (biomarkers). The main driving ... -
Bivalves in the face of ocean acidification
(2018-03-22)Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are leading to a gradual decrease in ocean pH and changes in seawater carbonate chemistry, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). Such changes in oceanic environmental conditions will ... -
Blue Oceans with Blue Mussels - Management and planning of mussel farming in coastal ecosystems
(2014-11-03)Eutrophication is one of the largest and most serious global threats to the marine environment. The effect of eutrophication has become increasingly clear during recent time, and major economic and political efforts are ... -
Breaking the cage – Implementing photocages to address spatiotemporal challenges in chemical biology
(2024-04-16)Visualizing atoms and molecules in motion remains a formidable challenge within structural chemical biology. Significant advances in the generation of ultrashort and bright X-ray pulses have provided the technical framework ... -
Bridging the past to the present: investigating species boundaries with herbarium specimens and next-generation-sequencing. A case study of circumpolar Silene sect. Physolychnis
(2023-10-30)During the recent decades, genetic information enclosed in herbarium collections have been partly revealed, largely due to the fast-moving high-throughput sequencing technologies. However, the genetic outcome from herbarium ... -
Broadening the perspective on seafood production: Life cycle thinking and fisheries management
(2014-03-28)Decisions made by fisheries managers strongly influence the overall resource use and environmental impacts associated with the seafood product from capture fisheries. These findings come from Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), ... -
Calcium transport in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas - in a changing environment
(2019-09-23)Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is globally one of the most important farmed bivalve species. A prominent features of the C. gigas is the thick CaCO3 shell covering the body of the animal and protecting it from the ... -
Carbon and nutrient cycling in Afromontane tropical forests at different successional stages
(2016-11-18)To date, studies of the carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical montane forests have been restricted to a few, mostly neotropical, sites. This thesis investigated the carbon and nutrient cycling of early (ES) and late (LS) ... -
Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapour Exchange within a Norway Spruce Canopy
(2012-05-04)Terrestrial ecosystems can act both as sinks and sources in the global carbon cycle. Forests are an important part of this system and a good understanding of their carbon balance is essential for assessments of the future ... -
Cardiorespiratory function of euryhaline teleosts - Regulatory mechanisms, effects of warming and costs of osmoregulation
(2021-11-26)Teleost fishes have colonized almost every aquatic habitat on earth and exhibit adaptations that allow them to thrive in environments with very diverse physico-chemical properties. One fundamental environmental variable ... -
Characterization of ion transport proteins involved in chloroplast function from land plants and algae
(2022-10-21)Evolved around 2.4 billion years ago and even earlier, according to the new geochemical evidence, oxygenic photosynthesis is the crucial turning point in the history of our planet. Used by cyanobacteria, algae, and ... -
Chemical mixtures and interactions with detoxification mechanisms and biomarker responses in fish
(2015-01-09)Several classes of anthropogenic chemicals are present as mixtures in the aquatic environment. However, information of how wildlife species, including fish, are affected by exposures to chemical mixtures is limited. Chemicals ... -
Climate Change and the Norway lobster -Effects of Multiple Stressors on Early Development
(2014-11-07)Climate change together with anthropogenic eutrophication have led to, and will lead to, shifts in a number of abiotic factors in the oceans, such as temperature, carbon dioxide [CO2], pH, oxygen saturation and salinity. ... -
Climate Change sensitivity of Photosynthesis and Respiration in Tropical Trees
(2021-05-12)Tropical climate is getting warmer, with more pronounced dry periods in large areas. The productivity and climate feedbacks of future tropical forests depend on the ability of trees to acclimate their physiological processes, ... -
Colour signalling in widowbirds and bishops
(2015-08-28)Sexual selection, i.e. differential mating success due to contest competition or mate choice, has produced an amazing diversity of elaborate sexual signals across the animal kingdom, not least the dazzling colours of birds. ... -
Confusions in Fungal Systematics
(2013-05-03)The focus of this thesis has been on fungi with corticioid, polyporoid or stipitate stereoid sporocarps in the Agaricomycetes, but included are also two papers which are methodologically oriented. The family Podoscyphaceae, ... -
Conservation genetics of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia)
(2013-02-21)The cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa is the most important reef-building coral species in the NE Atlantic Ocean. The reef framework creates a complex structural habitat that sustains high species diversity in the deep-sea. ...