Course: Community ecology, macroecology and biodiversity

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Course title Community ecology, macroecology and biodiversity
Course code ZOO/PGSCE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Remeš Vladimír, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Community structure, communities in time (succession) Interspecific interactions as forces moulding communities Species coexistence: ecological and evolutionary aspects, rules and consequences Ecological and food webs, chains and cascades Spatial aspects, metapopulations and metacommunities, species distribution (incl. SDMs) Species diversity, spatial and temporal dynamics, scaling of diversity Neutral theory and models, metabolic ecology Ecogeographical and macroecological rules, ranges Distribution of communities and biomes on Earth, historical effects Communities and species in time, diversification, extinction and macroevolution

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Brown, J. H. (1995). Macroecology. University of Chicago Press.
  • Franklin, J. (2011). Mapping Species Distributions. Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Gaston, K. J., Spicer, J. I. (1998). Biodiversity: An Introduction, 2nd ed.. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Gotelli, N. J. (2008). A primer of ecology, 4th ed.. Sinauer.
  • Lomolino, M. V. et al. (2010). Biogeography, 4th ed.. Sinauer.
  • MacArthur, R. H., Wilson, E. O. (1967). The theory of island biogeography. Princeton Univ. Press.
  • Magurran, A. E., McGill, B. J. (2011). Biological diversity: Frontiers in measurement and assessment. Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Mittlebach, G. G. (2012). Community ecology. Sinauer.
  • Real, L. A., Brown, J. H. (1991). Foundations of ecology: Classic papers with commentaries. Univ. of Chicago Press.
  • Sibly, R. M. (2012). Metabolic ecology: A scaling approach. Wiley-Blackwell.


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