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Course, academic year 2024/2025
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Ecology - MB170P75
Title: Ekologie
Czech title: Ekologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Ecology (31-162)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Linda Nedbalová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. RNDr. Tomáš Herben, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Linda Nedbalová, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MB160P08, MB162P47
Is incompatible with: MB160P08, MB162P47
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Annotation -
The science of ecology. Definition and relationship to evolutionary biology and environmental sciences. Conditions and resources. The match between organisms and their environments. Tolerance, optimum, ecological niche. Basic differences among terrestrial and water ecosystems. Life tables. Net reproductive rate, intrinsic rate of increase, generation time, reproductive value. Growth of individual populations. Stability, unstable thresholds; population dynamics in nature; exponential and logistic growth, oscillatory stability and instability, population cycles. Interspecific interactions. Competition, predation, mutualism. Communities. Species diversity, stability, disturbance. Islands, areas and colonization. Ecosystems. The flux of energy and the flux of matter. Man and biosphere. Global changes of environment.
Last update: VSACH (13.04.2005)
Literature -

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

Last update: Nedbalová Linda, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (23.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

Written exam.

We expect that students will go through:

 

(*) topics presented at lectures (see the syllabus)

(*) the book Townsend et al. (in recommended literature)

(*) papers discussed during the lectures

 

Last update: Nedbalová Linda, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (23.10.2019)
Syllabus - Czech

viz přiložené soubory.

Last update: Herben Tomáš, prof. RNDr., CSc. (10.02.2014)
 
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