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 27.9.
2. Abundance and cycles 27.9.
3. Evolution of sex, sex determination 4.10.
4. Sex ratio 4.10.
5. r- and K- selection 11.10.
6. Geographic variability (temperature, physiological time) 11.10.
7. Intraspecific competition 18.10.
8. Management of endangered species, Regulation of pests 18.10.
9. Sustainable harvesting 25.10.
10. Cooperation, Allee effect 25.10.
11. Dispersal and movement 8.11.
12. Dormancy, navigation, and migration 8.11.
13. Interspecific competition, competitive exclusion principle, apparent competition 15.11.
14. Niche and coexistence (storage effect, heteromyopy, resource partitioning) 15.11.
15. Amensalism, comensalism, mutualism 22.11.
16. Defence against predators (crypsis, mimicry) 22.11.
17. True predators, parasitoids, and host manipulation 29.11.
18. Herbivores, Parasites and pathogens 6.12.
1. Spatial distribution – field, coccinellid beetles
2. Trophic niche – field/laboratory, Zodarion & Pardosa spiders
3. Demography – laboratory, Tenebrio molitor beetles
Study chapters 1 & 2 and the
description of a selected project
Pekár S. & Kintrová K. 2013. Populační
ekologie živočichů v příkladech. MU Brno.