PdF:Bi2BP_EKOL Ecology for Basic Schools - Course Information

Bi2BP_EKOL Ecology - practical course

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Boris Rychnovský, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Robert Vlk, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Robert Vlk, Ph.D.
Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Robert Vlk, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Biology – Faculty of Education

Timetable of Seminar Groups

Bi2BP_EKOL/01: Thu 8:25–9:10 laboratoř 82, B. Rychnovský, R. Vlk
Bi2BP_EKOL/02: Thu 9:20–10:05 laboratoř 82, B. Rychnovský, R. Vlk
Bi2BP_EKOL/03: Thu 12:05–12:50 laboratoř 82, B. Rychnovský, R. Vlk
Bi2BP_EKOL/04: Thu 13:00–13:45 laboratoř 82, B. Rychnovský, R. Vlk

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Bi2BP_ZZBL Fundamentals of invertebrate zoology - practical course && Bi2BP_ZZBP Fundamentals of invertebrate zoology

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Natural Science (programme PdF, B-SPE)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain practicaly exercised general ecology topics in accordance with following draft of themes: (1) ecological factors of water medium (event. also climate and ecological factors of aerial medium); (2) ecological factors of the soil medium; ecology of populations (demecology) - (3) density, (4) mortality of selected population; (5) attributes of communities (event. also fundamentals of phytocenology); (6) food relations (food chains, food pyramids, analysis of food spectre).

Syllabus

• 1. Ecological factors of water medium I - running water.
• 2. Ecological factors of water medium II - stationary fresh water.
• 3. Climate and ecological factors of aerial medium.
• 4. Ecological factors of the soil medium - soil analysis.
• 5. Food relations - food chains, food pyramids: analysis of food spectre of bird predator (analysis of pellets of owls).
• 6. Comprehensive autecological study of selected plant or animal species.
• 7. Ecology of populations (demecology) I - methods of assesment of population density on example of small mammal.
• 8. Ecology of populations (demekology) II - mortality table and mortality curve of selected species of bird (forest song-bird).
• 9. Attributes of communities I - quantitative attributes: density of species, abundance, production - biomass, dominance) on example of ornithocenosis (e.g. in forest).
• 10. Attributes of communities II - structural attributes: frekvence, faunistic similarity/identity, diversity on example of ornithocenosis (e.g. in forest).
• 11. Fundamentals of plant population ecology a phytocenology; problematics of invasive plants.

Literature

• LAŠTŮVKA, Zdeněk and Pavla KREJČOVÁ. Ekologie. 1. vyd. Brno: Konvoj, 2000, 184 s. ISBN 8085615932. info
• Cvičení z ekologie živočichů. Edited by Bohumil Losos. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 229 s. ISBN 8021005181. info
• SLAVÍKOVÁ, Jiřina. Ekologie rostlin. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 366 s. info
• LOSOS, Bohumil. Ekologie živočichů. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1985, 316 s. info

Teaching methods

laboratory practices: anylysis of samples and/or estimating of ecological characteristics

Assessment methods

Requirement for credit: active participation on the lessons; 6 individual works: 1. water habitats, 2. density of population, 3. mortality of population, 4. attributes of zoocenosis (e.g. bird community), 5. analysis of owl pellets, 6. soil analysis.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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