Bi2BP_EKOP Ecology

Faculty of Education
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Robert Vlk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
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
Mon 12:05–12:50 učebna 5
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi2BP_ZZBL Fundament. of Invertebratology && Bi2BP_ZZBP Fundamen. of Invertebratology
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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and be able to explain basic knowledge concerning general ecology in accordance with following draft of themes: (1) ecological factors of water medium; (2) climate and ecological factors of aerial medium; (3) ecological factors of the soil medium; (4) ecological factors of nutrition; interspecific and intraspecific relations; (5) ecology of populations - demecology; (6) ecology of communities (=biocenoses) - synecology, attributes of communities; ecosystem.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction into general ecology - basic terms: autecology, demecology and synecology; ecological media and ecological factors of environment; habitat; ecological valency a adaptation - divergency and convergency, ecotype and subspecies; introduction, acclimatisation (and domestication).
  • 2. Ecological factors of water medium (fundamentals of hydrobiology) I - running water: abiotic factors; horizontal zoning - fish zones(krenon, ritron, potamon); vertical zoning - reopelagial, benthal, hyporheal; plankton - drift, benthos (+ periphyton), hyporheos; saprobity.
  • 3. Ecological factors of water medium (fundamentals of hydrobiology) II - stationary fresh water (x salt lakes, seas and oceans): vertical and horizotal zoning - pelagial (epipelagial, batypelagial), benthal (littoral, sublittoral, profundal, abysal); plankton, nekton, benthos; thermocline (metalimnion), saisonal cycle (stagnations x circulations); epilimnion x hypolimnion; eutrophisation.
  • 4. Climate, ecological factors of aerial medium and adaptations: macro-, mezo- a micro-climate; radiation, light, temperature, precipitation, moisture (humidity), circulation of air; bio-rhytms; ecological formulas.
  • 5. Ecological factors of the soil medium (fundamentals of pedobiology): pedogenic factors; edaphon, size and ecological classification of zooedaphon, examples of mezo-, macro- and mega-fauna; detritic food (trophic) chain.
  • 6. ecological factors of nutrition; ecological niche; interspecific relations: (neutralism,) protocooperation, komenzalism, mutualism (=symbiosis), amenzalism, competition, predation, parasitism (and parasitoidism); intraspecific relations: reproductive x non-reproductive groups (societies), territoriality.
  • 7. Ecology of populations (demecology) I: dispersion, density, migrality, natality and mortality.
  • 8. Ecology of populations (demecology) II: structure (sex ratio, age structure), growth, r- and K- strategies; oscilations, fluctuations, gradations.
  • 9. Communities (=biocenoses) - synecology: phytocenosis (phytocenology) x zoocenosis (zoocenology); habitat; biocenotic principles; vertical stratification; complex communities (zonations and mosaics); ecoton; periodicity (fenology), fenological aspects; sukcession (primary x secondary), climax (climatic x edaphic); (zono-)bioms: hylaea, littoraea, scleraea, silvaea, tajga, tundra, steppe, desert (plant life forms) x oro-bioms.
  • 10. Attributes of communities: quantitative attributes (density of species, abundance, production - biomass, dominance); structural attributes (presence x absence, frekvence, constance, faunistic similarity/identity, diversity, equitability); correlation attributes (fidelity, coordination).
  • 11. Ecosystem: functional units (producents, consumers, reducents), food (trofic) chains (pyramids), cumulation, energy flow; homeostasis and stability of ecosystem; productivity and production (primary and secondary); biogeochemical cycles (H2O, C, O, N, S, P).
Literature
  • BEGON, M., JOHN L. HARPER J.L. a COLIN R. TOWNSEND, C.R. (1997). Ekologie: jedinci, populace a společenstva. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 949 s.
  • TOWNSEND, C. R., MICHAEL BEGON M. A JOHN L. HARPER, J.L. (2003). Essentials of ecology. 2nd ed. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 530 pp.
  • LAŠTŮVKA, Zdeněk and Pavla KREJČOVÁ. Ekologie. 1. vyd. Brno: Konvoj, 2000, 184 s. ISBN 8085615932. 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
lectures
Assessment methods
Examination is carried out by means of standard (abcd) written test. However, requirement for admission for the examination are at least 3 accepted individual works (from 6 requested altogether) from practical course (EKOL).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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