Geobiology I. - MG420P02
Title: Geobiologie I.
Czech title: Geobiologie I.
Guaranteed by: Institute of Geology and Paleontology (31-420)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/1, C+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
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Katarína Holcová, CSc.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Zuzana Burdíková, Ph.D.
Mgr. Lukáš Falteisek, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Oldřich Fatka, CSc., DSc.
prof. RNDr. Katarína Holcová, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Ivo Konopásek, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Petr Kuneš, Ph.D.
RNDr. Filip Scheiner, Ph.D.
RNDr. Jolana Tátosová, Ph.D.
RNDr. David Uličný, CSc.
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Annotation -
Introduction to geobiology, differences between recent and fossil ecosystems, proxies for recontruction of fossil ecosystems, principles of molecular paleobiology and geomicrobiology
Last update: Holcová Katarína, prof. RNDr., CSc. (18.05.2012)
Literature -

Briggs, D.E.G., Crowther, P.R. (eds.), 2003. Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Publishing, 583 str.

Stanley S. M., 1989. Earth and life through time. W. H. Freeman and comp., New York, 690 pp.

Taylor, P. D., 2004. Extinctions in the History of Life. Cambridge University Press, 191 str.

Last update: Trnka Rudolf (25.04.2012)
Requirements to the exam -

Seminar work - presentation of new discoveries in geobiological sciences

Oral examination based on content of lectures

Last update: Holcová Katarína, prof. RNDr., CSc. (18.05.2012)
Syllabus -

1.Introduction to geobiology

2.Fossil ecosystems - methods of study

Differences between recent and fossil ecosystems

Postmortal and diagenetic changes in ecosystems

Extraordinary preservation of fossil ecosystems" Lagerstatten

Paleobiological proxies in reconstruction of fossil ecosystem

Geochemical proxies in reconstruction of fossil ecosystem

Sedimentological proxies in reconstruction of fossil ecosystem

3.Principles of molecular paleobiology

4.Principles of geomicrobiology

Last update: Holcová Katarína, prof. RNDr., CSc. (18.05.2012)