PhD in Marine Ecology

Academic year 2024-25

Degree data and benchmarks

Below are the main data and benchmarks, as well as the results of the satisfaction surveys for the degree programme, which are periodically analysed and monitored by the centre administrator, the head of studies and the corresponding quality assurance commissions, with a view to promoting the ongoing improvement of the programme.

 

Satisfaction of groups involved

Satisfaction index

 
2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
Student satisfaction 3,00 3,25 3,31 3,23 2,50
PDI satisfaction - 3,22 3,27 3,23 3,09
PAS satisfaction - 3,00 - 2,50 -

Description

Student, PDI and PAS satisfaction levels are rated on a scale of 1 to 4, where 1 means ‘not at all satisfied’ and 4 means ‘very satisfied’. They are obtained from the following surveys:

  • Survey of student satisfaction with the study programme (yearly)
  • Survey of satisfaction and identification of needs of teaching and research staff (PDI) (yearly)
  • Biennial survey of satisfaction and identification of needs of administrative and service staff (PAS) who have supported undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

 

Survey participation rates

 
2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
Student participation rate 27% 17% 46% 34% 26%
PDI participation rate 15% 41% 53% 45% 31%
PAS participation rate - 50% - 67% -

Description

Only the data that meet a double criterion of representativeness have been considered valid: on one hand, reaching 4 answered surveys and, on the other hand, that the number of answered surveys is equal to or greater than 15% of the population

Thesis

Link to the institutional repository (DSPACE)

Year Thesis
2025
  • Mass mortality events impacts and conservation of vulnerable species: Pinna nobilis as a case study
2024
  • Assessment of the incidence and impact of plastics on the fauna of the Balearic Sea
  • Determinación de parámetros biológicos de Spicara smaris (Linneaus, 1758) para la gestión del stock de las Pitiusas en el mar balear
  • Individual Circadian Behaviour Variation in Wild Fish: Global Assessment, Environmental-Related effects, and Socio-Ecological Consequences
  • Sponge Communities of the Balearic Islands: Advancing Knowledge on Their Taxonomy, Distribution and Ecology
  • The early life growth of anchovy (Engraulis ringens) and the growth-mortality hypothesis in the Humboldt Current System off Chile
2023
  • Ecology and management of the common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in a warming Mediterranean
  • EPIPHYTIC FORAMINIFERA AS POTENTIAL BIOINDICATORS IN POSIDONIA OCEANICA MEADOWS IN THE BALEARIC ARCHIPELAGO (WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN)
  • Impact of invasive snakes in the Balearic Islands: an ecological and molecular approach
2022
  • Monitoring coastal fish through remote underwater cameras: detectability, abundance, vulnerability and future applications
  • The role of global warming on the ecology of exotic macrophytes in the Mediterranean Sea
  • WHO EATS WHO IN THE WORLD OF BLUEFIN TUNA THUNNUS THYNNUS
2021
  • Dynamics of the deep-sea teleost Black scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839) in the Northeast Atlantic
  • Floating macro and micro-litter in the marine environment
  • Quantification, ingestion, and threat of plastic pollution on marine diversity
  • RESPONSE OF NITROGEN FIXERS ASSOCIATED WITH POSIDONIA OCEANICA TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND EMERGING POLLUTANTS
2020
  • Microbial communities across the oligotrophic western Mediterranean Sea: spatial and temporal dynamics
  • Plastic litter in seafloor habitats of the Balearic Islands and its implications for marine species
2019
  • Caracterización de la estructura de tamaños y composición del fitoplancton marino mediante difractometría láser
  • Diversity of demersal fish assemblages in the Mediterranean
  • Patterns of phytoplankton and primary production variability in the Mediterranean Sea based on remote sensing data
  • Seagrass ecology: environmental conditions and processes that affect the establishment and fate of seedlings
2018
  • Experimental studies on growth and survival in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda) larvae: Effects of light, food availability and temperature on their physiology and behavior
2017
  • Settlement and Recruitment Processes in Fish Species of Interest for Recreational Fisheries