PřF:GA231 Holocene - Course Information

GA231 Holocene

Extent and Intensity

2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Nela Doláková, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Nohálová (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Petřík, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Martin Ivanov, Dr.
Supplier department: Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science

Timetable

Mon 1. 3. to Fri 14. 5. Tue 12:00–13:50 Gp,02006, Tue 14:00–14:50 Gp,02006

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

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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

• HORSÁK, Michal, Nicole LIMONDIN-LOZOUET, Salome GRANAI, Julie DABKOWSKI, Jan DIVÍŠEK and Petra HÁJKOVÁ. Colonisation dynamic and diversity patterns of Holocene forest snail fauna across temperate Europe: The imprint of palaeoclimate changes. Quaternary Science Reviews. Oxford: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2020, vol. 240, JUL 15 2020, p. 1-13. ISSN 0277-3791. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106367. URL info
• SVOBODA, Jiří, Petr POKORNÝ, Ivan HORÁČEK, Sandra SÁZELOVÁ, Vojtěch ABRAHAM, Michaela DIVIŠOVÁ, Martin IVANOV, Radka KOZÁKOVÁ, Jan NOVÁK, Martin NOVÁK, Petr ŠÍDA and Angela Ray PERRI. Late Glacial and Holocene sequences in rockshelters and adjacent wetlands of Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic: Correlation of environmental and archaeological records. Quaternary International. Spojené království­: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2018, vol. 465, n/a, p. 234-250. ISSN 1040-6182. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.05.009. URL info
• The Holocene :an environmental history. Edited by Neil Roberts. 2013. ISBN 9781405155212. info
• Climates and landscapes of Northern Eurasia under conditions of global warming. Retrospective nanalysis and scenarios :atlas-monograph : evolution of landscapes and cllimates of Northern Eurasia : late Plestocene : Holocene : elements of prognosis. Edited by A. A. Veličko. Moskva: GEOS, 2010, 220 stran. ISBN 9785891185197. 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. Lectures will be conceived as an online presentations in spring semester 2021. Students will receive annotated presentations.

Assessment methods

Lectures run weekly, the final assessment is by way of the written test. The number of students at individual exam terms will be regulated according to current crisis measures in spring semester 2021. In case of completely critical situation, the completion of the course will be in a distance form in spring semester 2021.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
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 2020/2021.

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