546-0646/02 – Landscape Ecology (KrEkoB)
| 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 | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Based terms and notions, current trends in landscape management, inclusive of environmental legislation. The aim is to characterize the landscape as phenomena, to identify and to know problems of land use, to introduce students to landscape research and investigative methods and their application.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Terrain work
Summary
Landscape ecology. Landscape ecology is treated as a dynamic interdisciplinary field based on functioning of ecosystem principles.Processes and dynamics in landscape, Typology and regionalization, Stability, Human perception, landscape typology, data visualisation, island biogeography, urban ecology, ecological stability, landscape planning, International Association of Landscape Ecology and schools in the field, sustainable development and other issues create the body of this course.
Compulsory literature:
Farina A., 1998: Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. Chapman & Hall, London.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Examination papers, determination of wood species (in growing season)
E-learning
Other requirements
the knowledge of shrubs and trees species and their use
elaboration of reclamation proposal
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Landscape ecology. Landscape ecology is treated as a dynamic interdisciplinary field based on functioning of ecosystem principles.Processes and dynamics in landscape, Typology and regionalization, Stability, Human perception, landscape typology, data visualisation, island biogeography, urban ecology, ecological stability, landscape planning, International Association of Landscape Ecology and schools in the field, sustainable development and other issues create the body of this course.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks