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Lecturer(s)
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Václavík Tomáš, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
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Rulík Martin, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
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Kuras Tomáš, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Weber Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Zeidler Miroslav, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Šarapatka Bořivoj, prof. Dr. Ing. CSc.
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Course content
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Introduction to climate change The climate system and its components The carbon cycle and past climate change Impacts on plants and plant communities Impacts on agricultural ecosystems and soils Impacts on aquatic ecosystems (freshwater and marine) Impacts on Arctic and high-mountain ecosystems Impacts on society, populations, and urban ecosystems Impacts on biodiversity, species ranges, and ecosystem services Mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in ecosystems Political and social aspects of the impacts of climate change on ecosystems
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Demonstration, Projection (static, dynamic), Laboratory Work, Group work
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Learning outcomes
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Interpretation of evidence for climate change and its impacts on natural components. Distinguishing between observed trends, model projections, and future development scenarios, including their uncertainties. Interconnected impacts on soil, water, organisms, and ecosystem services. Assessment of the benefits, limitations, and potential conflicts of mitigation and adaptation measures. Critical evaluation of scientific and media communications on climate change.
Student: - explains the causes of current climate change and the mechanisms of its impacts on selected natural components; - links changes in climatic conditions to the response of organisms, communities, and ecosystems using a specific example; - interprets a presented graph, map, or data series and distinguishes observed developments from model projections, including fundamental uncertainties; - compares selected mitigation and adaptation measures and justifies their suitability and limitations for a specific ecosystem; - using scientific sources, critically assesses a selected public statement about climate change.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Final project
Written exam + evaluation of protocols from lab exercises
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Recommended literature
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Učím o klimatu.
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Grimm, N.B., Chapin III, F.S., Bierwagen, B., Gonzalez, P., Groffman, P.M., Luo, Y., Melton, F., Nadelhoffer, K., Pairis, A., Raymond, P.A. and Schimel, J. (2013). The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function. Ecology and the Environment, 11(9), pp.474-482.
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H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.). (2023). Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 35-115.
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