616-0418/01 – Ecology Essentials (ZE)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Environmental Protection in IndustryCredits3
Subject guarantordoc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.Subject version guarantordoc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year3Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2004/2005Year of cancellation2017/2018
Intended for the facultiesFMTIntended for study typesBachelor
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
SUT76 Ing. Petra Šutarová
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 3+2
Part-time Credit and Examination 12+0

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

Teaching methods

Lectures
Tutorials

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:

Morgan Sally. Ecology and environment: the cycles of life, Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 Stuart McBurney. - Devon : Ecology into economics won't go, or, Life is not a concept Green Books, 1990 - xii, 196 s. : il. ISBN 1-870098-28-5

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

presentation

E-learning

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Other requirements

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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.

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 1960/1961 Summer semester, validity until: 2017/2018 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 25 (25) 0 3
                Project Project 7  0 3
                Written exam Written test 10  0 3
                Other task type Other task type 5  0 3
                účast, zprávy z exkurzí Other task type 3  0
        Examination Examination 75 (75) 0 3
                Written examination Written examination 50  0 3
                Oral Oral examination 25  0 3
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Occurrence in study plans

Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2011/2012 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2010/2011 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2009/2010 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2008/2009 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2007/2008 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2006/2007 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2005/2006 (B3909) Process Engineering (2805R001) Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection P Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan

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Assessment of instruction



2009/2010 Winter