616-0418/01 – Ecology Essentials (ZE)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Protection in Industry | Credits | 3 |
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 | 2004/2005 | Year of cancellation | 2017/2018 |
Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- student will be able to formulate basic concepts and relationships of the issue of ekology
- students deepen their knowledge and understanding of the
issue of landscape ecology and related areas of water influence human activities
- student will be able to demonstrate their acquired knowledge into praktice
- student will be able to analyze the problems related to the different ecosystems (ocean, coastal), the ecology of wetlands, coral reefs, oil accidents, etc.
- student will be able to properly formulate and present their knowledge and understanding of environmental issues by using PC programs
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Summary
The aim of the subjects is to introduce students with the basic concepts and relations in the disciplines of ecology, biology, botany, zoology and environmental geochemistry and geology. The biology is a comprehensive overview of basic information about living matter, its composition, structure and functions at different hierarchical levels. Environmental Geochemistry introduces the regularities of migration of elements in the Earth's crust and the environment. Botany is focused on the plant physiology, systematic botany and zoology acquaints students with the knowledge of the general characteristics of the animal kingdom, characterizes the fauna in Czech Republic and its position within Europe.
Compulsory literature:
BEGON, Michael; TOWNSEND, Colin R.; HARPER, John L.Ecology: from in dividuals to ecosystems, Malden-Oxford, Blackwell,2006.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
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E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1st 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.
2nd 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.
3rd 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. Law and Law of the Minimum tolerance.
4th 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 biosféry.Sluneční radiation and its use. Heliotechnika. Wind energy. Energy sea and rivers. Energie.Termonukleární Geothermal energy utilization of mineral resources.
5th Man and his environment. Human development. The influence of human activities on the environment. Man and Energy. Human populations. People and health. Contamination of food
chain. Fate and effects of pollutants on humans.
6th 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, chemical properties of water, carbon-containing compounds. The basic unit of life. The discovery of cells and basic 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 cells, metabolism, cellular transport.
7th Area of Botany - Plant Physiology. Water plants. Mineral nutrition. Photosynthesis. Respiration. Secondary plant substances. Heterotrophic nutrition. Physiology of movements - physical and vital movements. Fytohromony. Physiology of plant growth and development. Plant propagation.
8th 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.
9th Branches of zoology - Characteristics of zoology as a science. Systematic Zoology. Basic systematic category. Binomial nomenclature. Biological species. Characteristic fauna of the Czech Republic and its position within Europe.
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