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Lecturer(s)
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Duchoslav Martin, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Mazalová Monika, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Ecology - definition of the field, its position within plant sciences and its division (autecology, population ecology, synecology etc.), main research methods; significance of ecological research for the society. Principal environmental factors and their dynamics. Some organisms as bioindicators of external habitat conditions. Population, the most important characteristics of plant and animal populations, their mutual relationships: competition, trophic relationships, allelopathy, parasitism, mutualism, herbivory, predation, territoriality etc. The niche concept, coevolution. Basic population strategies. Community, the structure of plant communities and its changes in time. Ecosystem - its spatial and trophic structure: producers, consumers, and decomposers, food chains and nets; primary and secondary ecosystem production. Ecological aspects of photosynthesis, photosynthetic pathways (C3, C4, CAM plants); evolutionary changes of ecosystems (fluctuation, succession, cyclic changes), the response of ecosystems to global climatic change.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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Ecology is centra discripline of biology, that studies interactions that influence occurence and frequency of organisms. Only knowledge of these interactions allow to understand what and how is the life threaten. The course introduce interactions that influence occurence and frequnecty of three hierarchical levels: organismal, population, community.
Student should be able to (after attending the course): - Describe main terms and relationships in modern Ecology research. - Recall main research methods and tools in recent Ecology research. - Explain complexity of factors, events and processes in Ecology. - Define how ecological principles influence many environmental processes and problems. - Discuss the modern life-style, conception of sustainable development, ecological education in society.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
knowledge in extent of the lectures
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Recommended literature
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Slavíková J. (1982): Ekologie rostlin. - SPN, Praha. Odum E.P. (1977): Základy ekologie. - Academia, Praha. Duvigneaud P. (1988): Ekologická syntéza. - Academia, Praha. Begon, M., Harper, J., Townsend, C.R., 1997: Ekologie. Jedinci, populace a společenstva. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 949 pp. Losos, B., Gulička, J., Lellák, J., Pelikán, J., 1985: Ekologie živočichů. SPN Praha, 320 s. Vlasák, P., 1986: Ekologie savců. Academia Praha 292 s. Janský, L., 1979: Fysiologie adaptací. Academia Praha, 212 s. .
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Crawley M. J. (1997). Plant ecology.. Blackwell Science Ltd, London.
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Grime, J. P. (1979). Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes. Wiley, Chichester.
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Chapin III, Stuart F., Matson, Pamela A. & Mooney, Harold A. (2002). Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology. Springer.
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Krebs, Charles. J. ed. (2001). Ecology: the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco, Boston, New York, etc.
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Larcher, W. (2003). Physiological Plant Ecology. 4th ed.. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, etc.
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