ENSn4414 Landscape Ecology

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Michal Friedl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kristína Markechová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 U42
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! HEN414 Landscape Ecology &&!NOW( HEN414 Landscape Ecology )
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 explain changes of he Central European landscape from the postglacial period until the presence, principles of prognosing the human impact on the landscape, and principles of landscape ecological network design.
The main objective is to acquante students of social sciences with the terms and approaches of landscape ecology as a discipline which integrates approaches of ecology and geography. Students will learn terms of landscape homogenity and heterogenity, biogeographic differentiation of landscape, biotop mapping in the NATURA 2000 programme.
The course will explain principles of landscape dynamics, ecosystem succesion and landscape development, and landscape ecological stability.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able after successful completion of the course: - describe the landscape structures of Central Europe; - identify the possibilities and limits of the landscape; - to apply the landscape biogeographical differentiation in geobiocenological concept in defining the skeleton of the ecological stability of the landscape; - to analyze landscape phenomena, processes and elements and their interrelationships; - to propose the principles of landscape management; - to assess the state of the landscape and the possibilities of its improvement.
Syllabus
  • Landscape ecology as science discipline. basic terms and their development.
  • Landscape as defined in the Czech law - No. 114/1992Sb.
  • The need for space specification of the landscape and related issues.
  • Determinant and dependant species. Bioms of Europe. Differences between jnatural and cultural ecosystems.
  • Time and ecosystem development, Succession, stages of development, climax.
  • Biogeografic regionalisation of Europe, Czech Republic.
  • Structure and functioning of the landscape: natural and anthropogenic (cultural factors).
  • Conectivitý of biotops and biocorridor functioning.
  • Ekological stability and ecosystems and landscape.
  • Harmonic cultural landscape, its identification in the Czech Republic, landscape character.
  • Applied landscape ecology in agriculture, forestry and water management. Land-use planning.
  • Ecological networks as example of the landscape ecology principle applied in the landscape planning. EECONET.
  • Excursion - White Carpathians.
Literature
    required literature
  • FORMAN, Richard T. T. and Michel GODRON. Krajinná ekologie. Translated by Jan Těšitel. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1993, 583 s. ISBN 8020004645. info
  • MÍCHAL, Igor. Ekologická stabilita. 1. vyd. Brno: Veronica, 1992, 243 s. info
    recommended literature
  • KOVÁŘ, Pavel. Ekosystémová a krajinná ekologie. Vyd. 2., přeprac. a dopl. Praha: Karolinum, 2012, 166 s. ISBN 9788024620442. info
  • SÁDLO, Jiří, Petr POKORNÝ, Pavel HÁJEK, Dagmar DRESLEROVÁ and Václav CÍLEK. Krajina a revoluce : významné přelomy ve vývoji kulturní krajiny českých zemí. Vyd. 1. Praha: Malá Skála, 2005, 247 stran. ISBN 8086776026. info
  • SÁDLO, Jiří and David STORCH. Biologie krajiny : biotopy České republiky. Vyd. 2. Praha: Vesmír, 2000, 94 s. ISBN 8085977311. info
  • LIPSKÝ, Zdeněk. Krajinná ekologie : pro studenty geografických oborů. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 129 s. ISBN 8071845450. info
Teaching methods
A combination of lectures and a field excursions.
Assessment methods
To pass out students are expected to attend field excursions and to submit a project onthe theme of landscape ecology. The final examination is in writing.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurz se otevírá při 5 a více přihlášených studentech.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fss/spring2021/ENSn4414