FSS:HEN403 Ecology - Course Information
HEN403 Fundamentals of Ecology
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2006
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Vladimír Hula, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Dana Pantůčková - Timetable
- Mon 8:00–9:40 Aula
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- HEN442 Botany
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Environmental Humanities (programme FSS, N-HE3)
- Environmental Humanities (programme FSS, N-SO)
- Course objectives
- This course introduces students to the principles of natural function according to Haeckel's definition of ecology (the science of relationships between organisms and the environment, or to put it another way, the science concerned with the economy of nature). The course explains the concept of ecosystems: all the main structures and functions for its operation will be discussed. The principle of continuity of structures and processes in nature will be demonstrated, as well as the principle of dynamics of all actions occurring in nature. Human activities and their influence on the functioning of ecological systems will also be mentioned. Adaptations and ecological strategies of producers, consumers and decomposers, cycles of important elements, energy inputs and outputs on the basis of the world biomes will be demonstrated. Finally, ecological balance and its principal attributes will be discussed.
- Literature
- BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
- STORCH, David and Stanislav MIHULKA. Ekologie :biologická olympiáda 1997-1998, 32. ročník, přípravný text pro kategorie A, B. 1. vyd. Praha: Institut dětí a mládeže MŠMT ČR, 1997, 72 s. ISBN 8086088120. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurz se otevírá při 5 a více přihlášených studentech.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2006, recent)
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