546-0367/01 – Ecology (EKO)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To be familiar with environmental issues in general terms. To distinguish the different approaches to estimate and find the best solutions for specific environmental issues.
Students will be able to provide informations for work with practice, demonstrate and evaluate a general overview of the issue. Comparing the different approaches and confrontation with practice. Prove to show results and solve problems with high quality of work and all by itself.
Demonstrate communication skills (speaking and active writing), to handle technical terminology.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Project work
Summary
Ecology, protection of environment, environmental engineering. Ecosystems,
their functions and their stability. Transformation of energy and material in
environment. Solar energy and its transformation, assimilation and
dissimilation. Biogeochemical cycles of carbon, oxygen, water, nitrogen,
phosforus, sulfur and other elements. Water as a part of biosphere,
surfacewater, underground water, drinking water, technological water. Water
pollution. Monitoring of water quality. Soil in environtment, pedogenesis.
Physical, chemical and biological properties of soil. Soil protection and
decontamination. Atmosphere, chemical composition and physical properties. Air
pollution, emissions, deposition. Main pollutants: compounds of carbon,
sulphur, nitrogen, halogens, solid particles. Acid rain, ozone layer
depletion, greenhouse effect. Air protection. Monitoring of air pollution.
Waste management and disposal. Environmental management.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
- Continuous control of writing
E-learning
Other requirements
- processing semester work
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
LECTURES
I. General ecology
1st The system of environmental sciences, ecology as a scientific discipline - definitions, relationships
other scientific disciplines.
2nd Biosphere, its components, characteristics. Organisms and environments
2) Abiotic factors - solar radiation, temperature, atmosphere, hydrosphere,
pedosphere
2b) Biotic factors - factors vnitroduhové, interspecific, anthropogenic.
3rd Population - the basics autecology.
4th Fellowship - synecology basics.
5th Ecosystem - an ecosystem theory, geobiocenózy. Ecological stability
homeostasis.
6th Substances cycles, biogeochemical cycles. Energy flows, productivity
ecosystem. Transmission of information regulation.
7th Limiting factors, laws and minimum tolerance. Food links, trophic chains
and network control.
8th Ecosystem dynamics, ecosystem activity. Ecological niche.
9th Ecology of fresh waters - an ecosystem of wetland, pond, river .. Ecology land -
forest ecosystem, agroekosystém and urban ecosystem.
II. human Ecology
1st Human ecology - concept. Human evolution, the process of urbanization -
industrial and postindustrial society
2nd Human population and population development. Human functions in the ecosystem.
3rd Environment and health - monitoring environmental pollution and exposure
man, bioindicators and biomarkers.
4th Cultural Ecology.
5th Sustainable Development.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction