Ecology - MB170P75
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program přednášek 2024.xls | Harmonogram přednášek | doc. RNDr. Linda Nedbalová, Ph.D. |
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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)
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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)
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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)
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viz přiložené soubory. Last update: Herben Tomáš, prof. RNDr., CSc. (10.02.2014)
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