Stano Pekár“Populační ekologie živočichů“
 dN
= Nr
dt
• Population ecology (Resources, Conditions, Models)
• Population growth (Population censuses)
• Population structure (Stage/Age life-tables, k-factor analysis)
• Temperature models (Degree-days)
• Intraspecific competition (Harvesting, Allee effect)
• Spatial ecology (Distribution, Dispersal, Metapopulations)
• Interspecific competition (Mutualism)
• Predation (Functional and numerical responses)
• Predation models (Host-pathogen/parasite, Prey-predator, Hostparasitoid,
Plant-herbivore)
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No. Topics Date
1. Adaptation, fitness and phenotypic plasticity
2. Abundance and cycles 6.10.
3. Evolution of sex, sex determination
4. Sex ratio
5. r- and K- selection 13.10.
6. Geographic variability (temperature, physiological time) 27.10.
7. Intraspecific competition 3.11.
8. Management of endangered species, Regulation of pests 3.11.
9. Sustainable harvesting
10. Cooperation, Allee effect 10.11.
11. Dispersal and movement 10.11.
12. Dormancy, navigation, and migration 24.11.
13. Interspecific competition, competitive exclusion principle, apparent competition 24.11.
14. Niche and coexistence (storage effect, heteromyopy, resource partitioning) 1.12.
15. Amensalism, comensalism, mutualism 1.12.
16. Defence against predators (crypsis, mimicry) 8.12.
17. True predators, parasitoids, and host manipulation 8.12.
18. Herbivores, Parasites and pathogens
1. Interspecific competition – laboratory, Tribolium &
Oryzaephilus beetles
2. Functional response – field/laboratory, Pardosa spiders &
Drosophila flies
3. Temperature-dependent development – laboratory,
Drosophila flies
4. Population dynamics – laboratory, Sinella springtails
Study chapters 1 & 2 and the
description of a selected project
Pekár S. & Kintrová K. 2013. Populační
ekologie živočichů v příkladech. MU Brno.