Essentials of Ecology - MB162P19

• Title: Essentials of Ecology
• Guaranteed by: Department of Ecology (31-162)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:oral
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Level: basic
• Explanation: Starting 2020/21 this lecture is NOT RUNNING!!!
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: RNDr. Martin Černý, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : MB160P08

Annotation

English

Important info: starting from 2019/20, there is a lecture General Ecology (MB162P08) given in English language yet only in the summer semester. The English version of General Ecology lecture will substitute this subject which will be ceased.

An introductory yet comprehensive undergraduate course covering all basic ecological concepts from individual to community level.

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.02.2019)

Czech

Předmět je vyučován v angličtině. Dává základní přehled ekologických konceptů od úrovně individua pro organizaci společenstev a ekosystémy.

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (05.04.2019)

Literature

English

Colin R. Townsend, Michael Begon, and John L. Harper. Essentials of Ecology, 3rd ed. 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.05.2012)

Czech

Colin R. Townsend, Michael Begon, and John L. Harper. Essentials of Ecology, 3rd ed. 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (05.04.2019)

Requirements to the exam

Oral exam 

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

Syllabus

1. What is ecology. An individual in the environment: effects of environmental factors and resources, life in extreme conditions

2. Population ecology I. Intrapopulation interactions, population growth, life tables, intraspecific competition.

3. Population ecology II. Interpopulation interactions - predation, competition, mutualism

4. Community ecology: diversity, sucession, stability, role of disturbance & predation, bottom-up & top-down control, primary production, food chains, island ecology concept

5. Ecosystem ecology: energy flow and matter cycling, global climatic patterns, biomes

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.05.2012)

Entry requirements

no prerequisities

Last update: Černý Martin, RNDr., Ph.D. (29.10.2019)