Winter Semester 2012/13
Winter Semester 2013/14
Winter Semester 2014/15
Winter Semester 2015/16
Winter Semester 2016/17
Winter Semester 2017/18
Winter Semester 2018/19
Winter Semester 2019/20
Ecology Ś11071
Course content:
The laws of Ecology. Levels of biological organization.
Population ecology. Life and the physical environment. Adaptation environments. Habitat and ecological niche. Ecological tolerance of individuals. Liebig’s law of the minimum. Shelford’s law of tolerance. Biocoenosis ecology. The structure and organization of biocoenosis.
Ecosystem: spatial and trophic structure. Food chains, food webs and food levels. Energy and matter in the ecosystem. Primary and secondary production. Pathways of elements in the ecosystem. Ecological succession. Inland water ecosystems. Degradation of water, ambient air, forest and agro-ecosystems. Water and soil pathogenic organisms. Protection of natural environment.
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(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
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Learning outcomes
1. student has knowledge of the structure and functioning of populations, biocoenosis and ecosystem,
2. recognizes and understands the relationship between abiotic environment and organisms; understands bioindication term,
3. know how to identify environmental threatened and know how to prevent them,
4. recognises the relationship between ecology and other fields of science e.g. technical sciences,
5. student finds and analyzes information using library resources and the Internet,
6. can individually prepare a brief written statement using ecological terminology
Bibliography
a) basic references:
Krebs C. J. 2011. Ecology: the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. Benjamin/Cumnings Pub Co.
Mackenzie A., Ball A.S., Virdee S.R. 2009. Ecology. Bios Scientific Pub Ltd.
b) supplementary references: