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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2017/2018

Ecology Essentials

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 616-0438/01
Abbreviation ZE
Course title Ecology Essentials
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Protection in Industry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Jančík, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. The content and subject of ecology, basic ecological concepts. Environmental Protection in relation to ecology. The individual, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere. Interspecies cooperation and competition. Ecological niche. Primary and secondary succession. Formation condition of climax. Biome.
2. Ecosystem. Basic principles, functions. Food links, trophic chains and networks. Regulation of trophic chains. Flow, or flow of energy. Energy balance. Energy flow and productivity ekosystémů.Umělé and natural ecosystems.
3. Biotic and abiotic environment. Effects of environmental factors on organisms. Dependence on environmental factors. Adaptation and convergence types. And factors limiting production. Tolerance range, the ecological amplitude of species. The law of tolerance Law and lows.
4. Resources of the biosphere. Renewable and nonrenewable resources biosphere. Contamination of the biosphere. Ecological Crisis. Natural resources: land, water, air, flora, fauna. Energy and Mineral Resources biosphere. Wasted resources biosphere. Solar radiation and its use. Wind energy. Energy sea and rivers. Geothermal energy. Thermonuclear energy utilization of mineral resources.
5. Man and his environment. Human development. The influence of human activities on the environment. Man and Energy. Human populations. Man and health. Contamination of food chain. Fate and effects of pollutants on humans.
6. What is life? Common features of living creatures, order and disorder, properties that maintain a population, evolution by natural selection, scientific metody. Atomy, molecules and life. Atoms, particles, molecules, the chemical properties of water, carbon-containing compounds. The basic unit of life. Discovery and basic cell theory of cells, two main types of cells, a common structure and function of cells, specialized structures and functions in cells. Dynamics of cells. Cells and basic energy flow of the universe, the chemical reactions and energy flow agents in cell metabolism, cellular transport.
7. Area of Botany - Plant Physiology. Water plants. Mineral nutrition. Photosynthesis. Respiration. Secondary plant substances. Heterotrophic nutrition. Physiology of movements - physical and vital movements. Phytohormones. Physiology of plant growth and development. Plant propagation.
8. Environmental geochemistry geology - basic geochemical concepts. Geochemical background. Geochemical anomalies. Biogeochemistry. Biogeochemical cycles of the major organogenesis elements. Biogeochemical migration of minor and trace elements.
9. Branches of zoology - characteristics of zoology as science. Systematic zoology. Basic systematic categories. Binomial nomenclature. Biological species. Characteristic fauna of the Czech Republic and its position within Europe.

E-learning

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Povinná literatura

BEGON, Michael; TOENSEND, Colin R.; HARPER, John L.Ecology: from in dividuals to
ecosystems, Malden-Oxford, Blackwell,2006.

Doporučená literatura

Morgan Sally. Ecology and environment: the cycles of life, Oxford University
Press, USA, 1995
Stuart McBurney. - Devon : Ecology into economics won't go, or, Life is not a
concept Green Books, 1990 - xii, 196 s. : il. ISBN 1-870098-28-5