Conducted in terms:
Winter Semester 2011/12
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 2020/21

ECTS credits: 2

Language: Polish

Organized by: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Ecology D15071

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.

(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu

(in Polish) Obowiązkowy

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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes:
Recognition of the relationship between life forms and a set of biotic, edaphic and climatic factors. Ability to identify environmental threats.

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: