GA231k Holocén

Faculty of Science
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Petřík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Nela Doláková, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Nohálová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Ing. Jana Pechmannová
Supplier department: Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
Basic knowledge of plant ecosystems and their changes in results of natural environment and human impact during Holocene
Learning outcomes
Written exam Basic knowledge of plant ecosystems and their changes in results of natural environment and human impact during Holocene
Syllabus
  • 1. Holocene chronostratigraphy, climatic oscillations, glacial boreholes, atmosphere composition, deglaciation, climate development at the Pleistocene / Holocene boundary and in Holocene, anthropogenic impacts;
  • 2. Dating methods: 14C, optically stimulated luminescence, thermoluminescence, dendrochronology, practical applications, laboratories;
  • 3. Plant ecosystems - ecological valency, plant strategy, zonal x azonal vegetation, climax communities, refugia - primary x secondary ecological succession, vegetation in the Last Glacial, influence of temperature and humidity increase, Holocene climatic optimum. Pleistocene end and Holocene fauna: extinction of large mammals, changes in the composition of small mammalian communities, and malacofauna; examples;
  • 4. Landscape relief, physical and chemical weathering, slope, fluvial, karst, cryogenic, eolian and anthropogenic processes, development of geomorphological shapes in various parts of the landscape, impact of reclamation on erosion conditions in the landscape;
  • 5. Soil development in Holocene, soil processes, soil classification, soil profile documentation, sampling, pedochemical analysis, interpretation, anthropogenic soil influence;
  • 6. Archeology - period and their duration (paleolith, neolithic, etc.), characteristics of individual periods, typical features, significant finds, researchers, localities;
  • 7. Domestication, definition of the concept, origins of domestication, characteristics of individual domestic species (mainly tour, sheep / goat, pig, horse, dog;
  • 8. Influence of human activity on vegetation, changes before the beginning of agriculture, Neolithic, basic cultivated crops and development of changes in landscape management;
  • 9. Palynology - pollen grains and spores + so-called non-pollen objects, advantages and disadvantages of the method, pollen diagrams - detection of changes in plant cover, climatic changes, intensity of human activity, localities. Isotope studies and their use, examples (carbon and nitrogen).
Literature
  • The Holocene :an environmental history. Edited by Neil Roberts. 2013. ISBN 9781405155212. info
  • Climate change and cultural dynamicsa global perspective on mid-Holocene transitions. Edited by David G. Anderson - Kirk A. Maasch - Daniel H. Sandweiss. London: Elsevier, 2007, xxv, 575 p. ISBN 0120883902. info
  • European river activity and climatic change during the Lateglacial and early Holocene. Edited by Burkhard Frenzel - J. Vandenberghe - Cornelis Kasse - Sjoerd Bohncke -. New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1995, vi, 226. ISBN 3437308068. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, practical examples
Assessment methods
Written exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Bude otevřeno v jarním semestru 2024/2025.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
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