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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Field Training in Ecology

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0719/04
Abbreviation TCvEkN
Course title Field Training in Ecology
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Practical field exercise consists of the following areas:
(a) an introduction to selected environmental problems of post-industrial respectively post-mining landscapes in the field;
(B) demonstration of significant natural phenomena and communities of post-industrial respectively post-mining landscapes in the field;
(c) the issue of nature and landscape conservation of post-industrial and post-mining landscapes;
(d) the preparation of field work.

Literature

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
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 

Advised literature

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 
HENDRY G. A. F. and J. P. GRIME (Eds.) Methods in Comparative Plant Ecology. A Laboratory Manual. London: Chapman and Hall, 1993. 252 p. ISBN 10: 0412462303


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