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Ecology AK1103
The laws of Ecology. The scope of research and the branches of Ecology.
The levels of biological organization: species, individual, population, biocoenosis, ecosystem, landscape.
Life and the physical environment. Adaptation to aquatic and terrestrial environments. Habitat and ecological niche. Ecology tolerance of individuals.
Population ecology. Population structures. Temporal and spatial dynamics of populations. Reproductiveness, mortality, migration. Island biogeography theory; metapopulation theory.
Biocoenosis ecology. The structure and organization of biocoenosis. Interaction: competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, ...
Ecosystem: spatial and trophic structure. The 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.
Plant geography and animal geography. Main biomes of the world.
Applied ecology.
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
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 choose and use the research methods used in population and biocoenosis ecology
4. know how to identify environmental threatened and know how to prevent them
5. recognises the relationship between ecology and other fields of science e.g. technical sciences
6. know how to work in a team
Bibliography
1) Krebs Ch.J.: Ecology. Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance. Pearson Education, Inc., 2009.
2) Mackenzie A., Ball A.S., Virdee S.R.: Instant Notes Ecology. BIOS Scientific Publishers Limited, 2001
1) Forman R.T.T.: Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1999
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