Cristina Acasuso-Rivero

• MSc
• University of Cambridge

Organisms are faced with variable environments and one of the most common solutions to cope with such variability is phenotypic plasticity, a modification of the phenotype to the environment. These modifications are commonly modelled in evolutionary theories as adaptive, influencing ecological and evolutionary processes. If plasticity is adaptive,...

Organisms are faced with variable environments and one of the most common solutions to cope with such variability is phenotypic plasticity, a modification of the phenotype to the environment. These modifications influence ecological and evolutionary processes and are assumed to be adaptive. The assumption of adaptive plasticity allows to derive the...

Marine mammals include cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, sea otters and polar bears, many of which are charismatic and popular species commonly kept under human care in zoos and aquaria. However, in comparison with their fully terrestrial counterparts their welfare has been less intensively studied, and their partial or full reliance on the aquatic...

Microplastic pollution is of growing concern worldwide and hence the assessment of its extent in the Greek marine environment is of uppermost importance due to the vast, albeit fragile biodiversity it possesses. In 2009, the first research phase assessed 114 beaches of the Greek islands and mainland producing evidence of microplastic contamination...

Before the establishment of political societies there was no constant property and social groups were not governed by an authority. Human aggregation leads into the need for authority and culture conceptualization. Inter and intra-specific interactions have evolved in parallel to the redefinition of these concepts which have always been density dep...