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Lecturer(s)
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Tkadlec Emil, prof. MVDr. CSc.
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Course content
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Population system and its components, conditions, resources. Variability of populations and mechanisms maintaining genetic variation (microevolution). Geographic variability. Quantifying processes in population, migration, dispersal, dormancy. Demography, age structure, life tables, survivorship curves, population projections. Density-independent population growth, intrinsic rate of population increase. Euler-Lotka equation. Sexual structure and variation in sex ratio. Density-dependent population growth, patterns of population dynamics, time delay in density-dependence. Regulation, delayed regulation, negative feedback, feedback mechanism. Intraspecific competition, cooperation (Allee effect), overcompensating mortality. Maximum sustainable yield. Interspecific competition, Lotka-Volterra model, competitive exclusion principle. Predation, Lotka-Volterra model, functional and numerical response, aggregation response. Prey defence, cryptic and aposematic colouration, mimicry. Dynamics of natural populations, population cycles. Metapopulation
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims at presenting actual information and procedures from the branch. Major approaches, conceptual and theoretical topics are listed in syllabus.
Explain the principles of population growth and dynamics Describe the effects of population structure on population growth rate Identify interactions regulating population size
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Prerequisites
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Completed Master's degree study
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam
Exam - good knowledge and orientation in modern theory of life histories on selected subjects
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Recommended literature
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Begon M, Mortimer M, Thompson DJ. (1996). Population Ecology. A Unified Study of Animals and Plants, 3rd ed.. Blackwell Science Ltd, Cambridge.
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Begon M, Townsend C, Harper JL. (2005). Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems. 4th ed.. Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge.
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Ricklefs RE, Miller GL. (2000). Ecology, 4th ed.. W.H. Freemean and Company, New York.
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Tkadlec E. Populační ekologie: struktura, růst a dynamika populací..
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