PřF:Z0025 Ecology and environment - Course Information
Z0025 Ecology and environment
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Martin Culek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jan Divíšek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Martin Culek, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Mon 16:00–17:50 Z5,02004
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites
- Z4066 Landscape ecology
Interest in the topic, courage to look to some laws and active approach to the seminars. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Students are to learn: to apply their knowledges in Geography in Environmental sciences; to do their own evavaluation of Ecological and Environmental problems; Name to targets of Nature and Landscapae protection acts and interpret their importance for administrative practise; Evaluate the importance of biota species as bioindicators of environmental quality; Analyze the influence of the Man on the Nature and the Landcape; Discuss about actual practical problems in Ecology and Environment protection e.g. ecological (biological) agriculture, forestry, renewable energy, question of "new jungle".
- Syllabus
- 1. Target of the course, related disciplines, Environmentalistics.
- 2. Biological individuum, population, coenosis (community), geobiocoenosis, ecosystem.
- 3. Stability of ecosystem, homeostasis, homeorhesis.
- 4. Introduction of species, aclimatization and domestification of species.
- 5. History of selected great annimal species in the Czech Republic.
- 6. Stages of denaturalization of species communities, stages of ecological stability, coefficient of ecological stability.
- 7. Typization of ecosystems used in the Nature protection and Environmental protection.
- 8. History of forestry, present organization of forests, forestry and its impacts to Environmental quality.
- 9. Ecologization of present-day forestry, Regional plans of forests (lecture of Mr. Ing. Dr. M. Macků, Intitute of forestry planning).
- 10. Ecological agriculture, its development and perspectives in the Czechia.
- 11. Renewable energy resources - in the Europe and in Czechia.
- 12. EIA process, SEA process.
- 13. Problem of "new jungle" in Czechian landscape.
- Literature
- HORNÍK, Stanislav and Ladislav BUZEK. Fyzická geografie. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 319 s. info
- LAŠTŮVKA, Zdeněk and Pavla KREJČOVÁ. Ekologie. 1. vyd. Brno: Konvoj, 2000, 184 s. ISBN 8085615932. info
- LOSOS, Bohumil, František KUBÍČEK and Zdeněk ŠEDA. Základy obecné ekologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1987, 258 s. info
- BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
- MÍCHAL, Igor. Ekologická stabilita. 2. rozš. vyd. Brno: Veronica, 1994, 275 s. ISBN 80-85368-22-6. info
- Těžba vápenců a chráněné krajinné oblasti : V. ročník Mezinárodní školy ochrany přírody krasových oblastí 10.9.-12.9.1997 : sborník referátů. Blansko: Správa chráněných krajinných oblastí České republiky, 1998, 134 s. ISBN 839041357X. info
- New rivers and wildlife handbook (Orig.) : Řeky pro život : revitalizace řek a péče o nivní biotopy. info
- Program péče o krajinu Ministerstva životního prostředí. Program revitalizace říčních systémů Ministerstav životního prostředí. Praha: Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, 1999, [79] s. info
- Obnovitelné zdroje energie a možnosti jejich uplatnění v České republice : studie analyzuje současný stav a předpoklady rozvoje v dlouhodobějším horizontu. Praha: ČEZ, 2007, 181 s. ISBN 9788023988239. info
- MÍCHAL, Igor. Obnova ekologické stability lesů. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1992, 169 s. ISBN 8085368234. info
- SIMON, Jaroslav. Hospodářská úprava lesů : vybrané části pro krajinné inženýrství. Vyd. 1. Brno: Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická universita, 2000, 136 s. ISBN 8071574791. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures are held with the use of powerpoint presentations. Discussion about the lecture themes during lectures are welcome anyway. Instead of two class exercises we shall do one 4-5 hour field trip in Brno surroundings. In class exercises students have partially possibility of chosing themes according to their interest and specialization.
- Assessment methods
- Course is finished by oral exam with possibility of written preparation. Necessary conditions for the exam attending is the class exercise and field trip credit. To obtain the credit are active presence in class exercises and two seminar papers required. First seminar paper consist of short powerpoint presentation of selected environmental thema, second one will solve actual problems. Quality of seminar papers and the level of activity during seminars give 30% of final evaluation. The exam must be done for evaluation "E" at least anyway.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2010, recent)
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