546-0478/01 – Biology and Hydrobiology (BiHyd)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Environmental EngineeringCredits5
Subject guarantordoc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.Subject version guarantordoc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year1Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2007/2008Year of cancellation2015/2016
Intended for the facultiesHGFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
CHO46 Mgr. Iva Melčáková, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 2+2

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

The goal of the Subject is to clarify the status of Hydrobiology of the Life sciences. In addition, students learn the basic and functional aspects of aquatic ecosystems, understand and be able to analyze the structure of community of standing and flowing waters, functional and trophic relations and regulatory mechanisms that determine the types of aquatic ecosystems, evaluate the types and degree of loading of waste water treatment and other anthropic influences (problems of acidification, eutrophication of water) and finally become with the issue of revitalization of water streams and rivers.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Terrain work

Summary

After completion of this subject students will understand basic characteristics of water environment, the evolving and categorization of freshwater communities, the pollution of water ecosystems by wastewater and some additional issues (acidification, eutrofication etc.).

Compulsory literature:

ALLAN, D.: Stream ekology, Champan & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London, 1995. ALLAN, D., J. and CASTILLO,M.,M.: Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters, Springer; 2nd ed. edition , 2007. HARTMAN, P. a kol.: Hydrobiologie, 1998, Praha. HYNES, H.B.N.: The ecology of running water, 1970, Liverpool University Press KALFF, J.: Limnology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2002. LELLÁK, J., KUBÍČEK, F.: Hydrobiologie, 1992, UK Praha.

Recommended literature:

HYNES, H.B.N.: The ecology of running water, 1970, Liverpool University Press KALFF, J.: Limnology, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2002.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

Elaboration of the Semester paper.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Limnology, the emergence and development of Hydrobiology, geological and biotypological distribution of water, the water cycle in nature. 2. Groundwater - rocks and their properties, types of rock permeability, circulation of groundwater, the distribution of groundwater, chemical and physical properties of groundwater, groundwater recovery. 3. The process of groundwater pollution, animal responses to various types pollution, ways of detecting pollution of groundwater remediation methods groundwater. 4. Standing water - the basic physical and chemical properties (density, viscosity, surface tension, electrical conductivity, redox potential, pH, alkalinity, hydrostatic pressure, solar radiation, transparency, color, heat mode). 5. Circulation of substances - oxygen cycle, biogeochemical cycles of carbon, forms CO2 in water, carbonate equilibrium and its significance, alkalinity of water, nitrogen cycle in water, N2 fixation, assimilation of NH4 + and NO3-, nitrification, denitrification, the cycle of phosphorus in the water and ecological importance P limitation of water, sulfur water cycles, the cycle of iron and manganese, silicon and its forms in water, organic substances dissolved in water. 6. The structure of stagnant water biota. Settlement extreme stagnant water (bogs, fens, periodic pools). 7. Running water - the basic physical and chemical properties. Life environment and structure of biota (plankton, drift, phytobenthos, zoobentos, nekton), changes in the longitudinal profile of communities in natural flow conditions. 8. Pollution of surface waters - sources and types of pollutants (Mineral and putrid sludge, toxic substances, radioactive substances, warmed waste water, waste water and oily substances and petroleum products, waste water with pathogenic organisms). 9. Self-cleaning water flows and physical and chemical processes of self-cleaning, the influence pollution on the occurrence of aquatic organisms, successional stage self-cleaning, dealing with emergency situations in the flow. 10. Assessment of purity of surface waters - saprobic systems. 11. Changes in flow and the influence of flow adjustments. 12. Acidification of aquatic ecosystems-sources of pollutants, and short-term long-term changes in water acidity, the extent of acidification, catchment and water chemistry, development phase of acidification, direct and indirect effects of acidification on aquatic biota, indication of acidification, acidification examples. 13. Eutrophication of standing waters - definition, extent, causes eutrophication, ratio of nutrients, phosphorus source for eutrophication, development of primary producers, reduction of external nutrients. 14. Waste water treatment - waste water, origin, composition. Biological wastewater treatment (septic tanks and septic tanks, irrigation and soil filtration, stabilization tanks and ponds, reed). Wastewater treatment technology (1 mechanical stage, 2 biological level - bio spray, rotary biodiskové reactors, activation, anaerobic technology, sludge and sewage gases, 3 tertiary treatment plants - secondary treatment plants). 15. Water Biology - water resources, and leads pretreatment of raw water, Water plants, evaluating the effectiveness of water treatment, organoleptic failure of drinking water quality requirements for drinking water, hygiene of drinking water.

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 1960/1961 Summer semester, validity until: 2011/2012 Summer semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51 3
        Exercises evaluation Credit 33 (33) 0 3
                Other task type Other task type 33  0 3
        Examination Examination 67 (67) 0 3
                Written examination Written examination 30  0 3
                Oral Oral examination 37  0 3
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2013/2014 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2012/2013 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2011/2012 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2010/2011 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2009/2010 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2008/2009 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2007/2008 (N2102) Mineral Raw Materials (3901T037) Water - strategic resource P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan

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2012/2013 Winter
2009/2010 Winter