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Terminated in academic year 2013/2014

Methods of Ecosystem Studies

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0494/01
Abbreviation MSE
Course title Methods of Ecosystem Studies
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Biological indicators.
2. Study of plants communities.
3. Study of subterranean invertebrates communities .
4. Study of of water invertebrates.
5. Study of vertebrate.
6. Biological monitoring.

Literature

SALA, O. E., R. B. JACKSON, H. A. MOONEY and R. W. HOWARTH (Eds.) Methods in Ecosystem Science. Springer, 2000. 421 p. ISBN 978-1-4612-1224-9 
SPELLERBERG, I. F. Monitoring Ecological Change. New Zealand: Lincoln University, 2005. 412 p. ISBN 9780521527286 
SOUTHWOOD, T. R. E. and P. A. HENDERSON Ecological Methods. Wiley-Blackwell, 2000. 575 p. ISBN 10: 0632054778
LINDDENMAYER, D. B. and G. E. LIKENS Effective Ecological Monitoring. Routledge, 2010. 184 p. ISBN 10: 1849711453

Advised literature

STEVENS, M. H. A Primer of Ecology with R. Springer, 2009. 401 p. ISBN-13: 978-0387898810 
TOWNSEND, C. R., M. BEGON, M. and J. L. HARPER, J. L. Essentials of Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. 532 p. ISBN-13: 978-1405156585 
SCHWOERBEL, J. Methods of Hydrobiology (Freshwater Biology). Elsevier, 210 p. ISBN 978-0-08-006604-2 
PEDROTTI, F. Plant and Vegetation Mapping (Geobotany Studies). Springer, 2013. 294 p. ISBN-13: 978-3642302343