Students will get acquainted with the issue of biodiversity in the industrial landscape. They will get detailed information about ecological succession on industrially created or strongly anthropogenically affected areas. Attention will also be focused on basic plant communities, rare, invasive and expansion species of plants and animals.
Students will also gain an overview of the basic legal norms that concern a nature protection and understand the complexity of issues related to nature protection and environmental issues in the industrial landscape.
An essential part of the course are field work and exercises.
Literature
FERIÈRE R., DIECKMANN U., COUVET D. (EDS.) (2004). Evolutionary conservation biology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
GASTON K.J. (1996). Biodiversity: a biology of numbers and differences. Blackwell Science.
HUBBELL S.P.(2001). The unified theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Monographs in Population biology. Princeton Science.
HUNTER Jr. M. L. (1996): Fundamentals of Conservation Biology.- Blackwell Science, USA., 482p.
Advised literature
MAGURRAN A.E. (1988) Ecological Diversity and Its Measurement. Cambridge University Press, UK.
PRIMACK R. B. (2002): Essentials of Conservation Biology. 3rd ed.- Sinauer Associates, USA, 699p.
HUNTER Jr. M. L. (1996): Fundamentals of Conservation Biology.- Blackwell Science, USA., 482p.