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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The lecture is focused on large scales living nature phenomenon and ecological processes that in these scales occur. Not only in spatial scales (from the level of associates and metapopulations to landscape and all biogeographic provinces) or time ones (from some generations to changes of geological eras), but also on processes and phenomenon including all groups of organisms (taxons and biota). The first part of the lecture is applied to the role of space and spatial heterogeneity in ecology, the second one concerns with processes with big number of species (species assemblages, associates and biota) and the third one concerns with time variability and actions taking part in long scale periods of time.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
- Attendace
- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The lecture is focused on large scales living nature phenomenon and ecological processes that in these scales occur. Not only in spatial scales (from the level of associates and metapopulations to landscape and all biogeographic provinces) or time ones (from some generations to changes of geological eras), but also on processes and phenomenon including all groups of organisms (taxons and biota). The first part of the lecture is applied to the role of space and spatial heterogeneity in ecology, the second one concerns with processes with big number of species (species assemblages, associates and biota) and the third one concerns with time variability and actions taking part in long scale periods of time.
Knowledge Explain subject study of macroecology Explain basic patterns of ecological processes on large scale (time & space). Identify importance of space and time heterogenity on biodiversity
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Prerequisites
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Community ecology, population ecology, fundamentals of statistics.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Written exam
Ended by written exam.
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Recommended literature
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Brown J.H. (1995). Macroecology.. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Gaston K.J., Blackburn T.M. (2000). Pattern and Process in Macroecology.. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
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Hanski I.A., Gilpin M.E. (eds.). (1997). Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution.. Academic Press, San Diego.
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Hansson L., Fahrig L., Merriam G. (eds). (1995). Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes.. Chapmann et Hall, New York.
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Ricklefs R.E., Schluter D. (eds). (1993). Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives.. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Rosenzweig M. (1995). Species Diversity in Space and Time.. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Schluter D. (2000). The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation.. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Storch D.,Mihulka S. (2000). Úvod do současné ekologie.. Portál, Praha.
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