546-0495/02 – Engineering Ecology (IEK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2013/2014 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Engineering Ecology disseminates till now obtained knowledge (in the bachelor
study). Students must know and understand ecological processes in ecosystems and their components.The study of Ecology will be linked with ecological physiology, evolutionary ecology and biosystematics. Applications and argumentations. Determination of CR flora.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Terrain work
Summary
Production ecology. Principles and processes of photosynthesis. Plant and environment. Fitness. Autecology and synecology. Human ecology.
Compulsory literature:
BEGON M.,HARPER J.L.,TOWNSEND C.R.: Ecology -individuals, populations and commnunities. Blackwell Scien. Publ., 2006.
BROWER J., VON ENDE C.N. Field and laboratory methods for general ecology. McGraw-Hill. 2010.
PARDO S., PARDO M. Statistical Methods for Field and Laboratory Studies in Behavioral Ecology. Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics. 2018.
SMITH R.L., SMITH T.M. Elements of Ecology. Pearson. 2015.
Recommended literature:
LARCHER, W. Physiological plant ecology. Berlin: Springer, 2003
KREBS C.J. Ecological Methodology. 2nd Edition. Addison Wesley Longman, Menlo Park etc. 1999.
RICKLEFS R. Ecology: The Economy of Nature. WH Freeman. 2018.
GLIESSMAN S.R. Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable Food Systems. CRC Press. 2015.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Credit and Exam
examination papers, semetral paper, determination of Flora CR
E-learning
Other requirements
The elaboration of Semester paper and its presentation.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. The position of plant ecology in the biological sciences, subject of study.
Ecosystem, niche, biotope, vegetation, flora, locality. Ecological limits. Ecology
photosynthesis and production ecology.
2. Plants and environment: Diversity and amplitude of ecological factors on
Earth. Fitness. Terms and resources.
3. Water in the soil. Water potential. Water as a plant environment.
4. Mineral nutrition of plants - Microelements - macroelements. Accessibility a
intake of substances. Ecological adaptations.
5. Growth and development as a manifestation of life. Growth stages. Phenology and phenophase.
Life forms of plants. Plant populations.
6. Phytocenosis. Ecological niche. Success. Climax and its features. Definition
communities - spatial structure, abundance, density, dispersion, cover.
Plant response to pollution. Forms of organism responses. Homeostasis. Stress.
7. Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on animals, interspecies
interaction. Groups of factors in types of environments. Food relations. Communities
animals. Energy flow in animal communities. Functions of animals in
ecosystem.
8. Man and the environment. Climate adaptation. Cultural aspects of climate
adaptation. Man and biotic environmental factors. Ecopathology. Health risks
in developed countries.
9. Classification of ecosystems with human participation. Types of ecosystems, forms
management, energy aspects of human ecosystems. Problems of urbanization.
Synanthropization and synurbanization of plants and animals.
10. Resources. Interventions in the energy of ecosystems. Genetically engineered
organisms. Perspectives for the future.
11. Ecological aspects of nutrition. Human niche.
12. Ecology of human populations. Size, structure and density of populations.
Migration.
13. Races, definitions of races. Racial classification systems. Origin and genesis of races.
14. Paleoecology. Characteristics and distribution of primates. Evolution of primates.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction