PřF:Bi8175 Mire ecology - Course Information
Bi8175 Mire ecology
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Michal Hájek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petra Hájková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. Mgr. Michal Hájek, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. Mgr. Michal Hájek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Wed 16:00–16:50 D32/329
- 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
- Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (programme PřF, B-EKB)
- Plant Ecology (programme PřF, N-BOT)
- Nature Conservation - Botany (programme PřF, N-OCH)
- Zoology (programme PřF, N-ZOL)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this course is to describe and interpret ecologically the major vegetational types of mires and springs and understand their relationship to environmental gradients. Lectures are supplemented by field excursion.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- distinguish morphological, hydrological and trophic types of mires and similar habitats (springs, travertines, wet meadows)
- understand abiotic and biotic processes in mires
- predict species composition and structure of plant or animal assemblages in relation to ecological factors and to reconstruct and predict the succession of mire ecosystems in changing landscape. - Syllabus
- 1)Definition and classification of mires. Hydrology.
- 2)Biogeochemical cycles. Chemical processes in peat.
- 3)Gradients of base saturation and nutrient availability.
- 4)Gradients of water table depth.
- 5)Other gradients: temperature, peat depth, sucessional gradients
- 6)Anthropic influence
- 7)Measurements of ecological factors
- Literature
- Dierssen K. & B. (2001): Ökosysteme Mitteleuropas aus geobotanischer Sicht. Band 2, Moore, Ulmer, Stuttgart.
- RYDIN, Håkan, John K. JEGLUM and A. HOOIJER. Biology of peatlands. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ix, 343. ISBN 0198528728. info
- Peatlands : evolution and records of environmental and climate changes. Edited by I. P. Martini - Antonio Martínez Cortizas - Ward Chesworth. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, xviii, 587. ISBN 0444528830. info
- CHARMAN, Dan. Peatlands and environmental change. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2002, x, 301. ISBN 0471969907. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures (data projektor), presentation of specialist (M. Horsák), eventually workshop on current literature
- Assessment methods
- written test or oral exam, eventually review project from current literature
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: v sudých letech (podzim 2002, 2004, ...).
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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