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Lecturer(s)
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Plesník Jan, RNDr. CSc.
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Kuras Tomáš, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Tkadlec Emil, prof. MVDr. CSc.
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Course content
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Conservation biology - definition and aims. Conservation ecology, macroecology, environmental science(s). Sustainable development. Nature and the landscape. Ecological integrity. Biodiversity, main levels and aspects. Biodiversity measurements, estimation and assessment, values of biological diversity. Other classification of biodiversity. Theoretical bases of biodiversity conservation management: island biogeography, metapopulation, sinks and sources, "new" non-equilibrium paradigma and flow of nature. Conservation planning. Threats to biological diversity: biodiversity fragmentation and loss, invasive alien species, direct persecution incl. trade, global climate change, diseases, disasters, contamination by chemicals, secondary causes. Species richness limits: extinction and speciation. Biodiversity conservation and management and sustainable use of its components: main principles and strategies. Ex - and in-situ conservation (principles and guidelines, approaches, tools and instruments, advantages and disadvantages).Genetic diversity conservation: wildlife species, crop varieties and cultivars, domestic and farm animal breeds. Species protection - could it be a basis for natural heritage management? Which species to be protected and managed (threatened, rare, keystone, flagship, umbrella, focal, endemic, etc.). Action plans and recovery programmes - how to do it. Restoration ecology, molecular biology and gene technology in natural heritage management. Protected/declared areas v. ecological/environmental networks/greenways. Protected/declared area identification and management: adaptive v. blueprint one, SLOSS. Ecosystem approach and ecosystem management. Introduction to environmental economics: ecosystem good and services, ecological capital, bioprospecting and biopiracy, gene patents and World Trade Organisation (WTO). Biosafety, genetically modified organisms. Biodiversity monitoring and indicators. Bioinformatics at global, pan-European, EU and national level. International nature and landscape management: international multilateral treaties, agreements and protocols (Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CITES, CMS, Bern and Ramsar conventions, EUROBATS, AEWA, UNFCCC, UNCCD, European Landscape Convention), organizations (UN agencies - UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, UNDP IUCN, WWF, BirdLife International, Wetlands International, Children of the Earth, Greenpeace, EUROPARC), programmes (MaB, MEA, DIVERSITAS, GBIF). European Community biodiversity conservation legislation (EC law, Birds and Habitats Directives, Natura 2000 network, EC Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Action Plan, agri-environmental schemes, European Community expert/ technical bodies on environment, nature and biodiversity)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Projection (static, dynamic)
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- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Conservation biology - definition and aims. Conservation ecology, macroecology, environmental science(s). Sustainable development. Nature and the landscape. Ecological integrity. Biodiversity, main levels and aspects. Biodiversity measurements, estimation and assessment, values of biological diversity. Other classification of biodiversity. Theoretical bases of biodiversity conservation management: island biogeography, metapopulation, sinks and sources, "new" non-equilibrium paradigma and flow of nature. Conservation planning. Threats to biological diversity: biodiversity fragmentation and loss, invasive alien species, direct persecution incl. trade, global climate change, diseases, disasters, contamination by chemicals, secondary causes. Species richness limits: extinction and speciation. Biodiversity conservation and management and sustainable use of its components: main principles and strategies. Ex - and in-situ conservation (principles and guidelines, approaches, tools and instruments, advantages and disadvantages).Genetic diversity conservation: wildlife species, crop varieties and cultivars, domestic and farm animal breeds. Species protection - could it be a basis for natural heritage management? Which species to be protected and managed (threatened, rare, keystone, flagship, umbrella, focal, endemic, etc.). Action plans and recovery programmes - how to do it. Restoration ecology, molecular biology and gene technology in natural heritage management. Protected/declared areas v. ecological/environmental networks/greenways. Protected/declared area identification and management: adaptive v. blueprint one, SLOSS. Ecosystem approach and ecosystem management. Introduction to environmental economics: ecosystem good and services, ecological capital, bioprospecting and biopiracy, gene patents and World Trade Organisation (WTO). Biosafety, genetically modified organisms. Biodiversity monitoring and indicators. Bioinformatics at global, pan-European, EU and national level. International nature and landscape management: international multilateral treaties, agreements and protocols (Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CITES, CMS, Bern and Ramsar conventions, EUROBATS, AEWA, UNFCCC, UNCCD, European Landscape Convention), organizations (UN agencies - UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, UNDP IUCN, WWF, BirdLife International, Wetlands International, Children of the Earth, Greenpeace, EUROPARC), programmes (MaB, MEA, DIVERSITAS, GBIF). European Community biodiversity conservation legislation (EC law, Birds and Habitats Directives, Natura 2000 network, EC Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Action Plan, agri-environmental schemes, European Community expert/ technical bodies on environment, nature and biodiversity)
Knowledge Basic conceptions of conservation biology. Nature and the landscape. Ecological integrity. Biodiversity and its classification. Biosafety, genetically modified organisms. Biodiversity monitoring and indicators. Bioinformatics at global, pan-European, EU and national level. International nature and landscape management: international multilateral treaties, agreements and protocols.
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Prerequisites
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Conservation biology
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam, Written exam
Ended by written exam.
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Recommended literature
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Caughley G., Gunn A. (1995). Conservation biology in theory and practice. Blackwell Science Cambridge, Mass.. Oxford London, 459 pp.
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Farina, A. (2000). Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Gaston K.J., BlackburnT. (2000). Pattern and process in macroecology.. Blackwell Science Oxford London, 392 pp.
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Hawksworth D.L. (1995). Biodiversity. Measurement and estimation.. Kluwer Academic Publ. Dordrecht,144 pp.
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Hora J., Kučera T., Plesník J. (1999). Ochrana přírody v Evropské unii.. Česká společnost ornitologická Praha, 16 pp.
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Jordan C.F. (1995). Conservation. Replacing quantity with quality as a goal for global management.. John Wiley & Sons New York, 340 pp.
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McNeely J.A. (1997). Conservation and the future: trends and options towards the year 2025. IUCN Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K., 119 pp.
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Meffe G.K., Carroll C.R. et al. (1997). Principles of conservation biology, 2nd edition.. Sinauer Assoc. Inc. Sunderland, Mass., 729 pp.
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Plesník J. (2000). Legislativa ČR na ochranu přírody a krajiny ve světle zákonodárství ES.. Veronica 14 (3): 4 - 7.
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Plesník J. (1998). Ochrana přírody na konci 20. století: integrovaný přístup nezbytný.. Živa 46: 249 - 251.
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