FPF:UHVM0090 Introduction to environmental - Course Information

UHVM0090 Introduction to environmental protection

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Ing. Miloš Zapletal, Dr. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. Ing. Miloš Zapletal, Dr.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Prerequisites

no

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

Students will acquire basic knowledge about relationships between organisms and their environment, the human impact on the individual components of the environment and protection of the environment and ecosystems from the adverse effects of anthropogenic factors.

Syllabus

• 1. Ecology and environmental protection. Definition of ecology and environmental protection. Organisms, populations, communities. Relationships between organisms (species), populations, communities and their environment.
  2. Relationship organisms and the environment. Biotic environment (created by all living organisms) and abiotic (composed of inanimate matter - soil, water, air, radiation, etc.). Conditions (eg temperature, pH, relative humidity) and resources (eg energy, food and places the survival of organisms).
  3. Resources. Definition sources. The limiting factor in the context of Liebig law. Solar radiation. The course of photosynthesis. Factors that affect photosynthesis. Photosynthesis and respiration.
  4. The limiting environmental conditions. The occurrence and abundance of species. Conditions such as abiotic factors (temperature, relative humidity, pH, salinity, water flow rate, the concentration of pollutants).
  5. Trophic structure of the ecosystem. The ecosystem as a community (biocenosis) animals, plants and microorganisms. Habitats. Climatypes, edafotop and hydrotop. The importance of energy for the ecosystem. Autotrophic organisms. Chemotrophic organisms (bacteria). Producers. Heterotrophic organisms. Consumers.
  6. Biogeochemical cycles in the ecosystem. Repeated cycles of materials between living organisms and their environment in different ecosystems of the continents and oceans. Cycle water. Carbon cycle. The nitrogen cycle. The cycle of phosphorus. Sulfur cycle.
  7. Ecosystems and communities. The ecosystem as a community (biocenosis) animals, plants and microorganisms, which in a certain area (habitat) are related to each other and in relation to the environment and each other form a unit with a closed circulation fabric.
  8. Succession. Succession as a one-way process of development inevitable gradual sequence of changes in the species composition of communities (biocenosis) on habitats that goes in a certain direction and we can reasonably predict. The initial stage of the community.
  9. Spatially defined ecosystems. Spatially defined ecosystem in horizontal and vertical direction. Defining vegetation zones according to altitude. Definition of ecosystem variability in the horizontal direction.
  10. Evolutionary ecology. Diversity as a condition of evolution. Long-term changes within a population over time, leading to the formation of new species. Methods of genetic changes.
  11. The theory of island biogeography and landscape. Interplay speed colonization of the island, its size and the diversity of organisms on the island.
  12. Ecological stability and balance. Existence of stabilizing processes and mechanisms operating within ecosystems. Feedback, succession, food chains, energy flows and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems.

Literature

required literature
• Moldán, B.:. Podmaněná planeta. Praha, 2009. info
• Milhajevič, M., Moldan, B.:. Otázky biogeochemie. Praha, 2000. info
• Storch, D., Mihulka, S.:. Úvod do současné ekologie. Praha, 2000. info
• Lipský, Z.:. Krajinní ekologie. Praha, 1999. info
• Zapletal, M.:. Atmosférická depozice acidifikačních činitelů na území České republiky. Opava, 1997. info
• Begon, M., Harper, J.L., Towsend, C.R.:. Ekologie - jedinci, populace a společenstva. Olomouc, 1997. info
• Moldan, B.:. Příroda a civilizace - životní prostředí a rozvoj lidské civilizace. Praha, 1997. info
• Herčík, M.:. Životního prostředí - Úvod do studia. Ostrava, 1996. info
• Nováček, P., Huba, M.:. Ohrožená planeta. Olomouc, 1994. info
• Forman, T.T.R, Godron, M.:. Krajinná ekologie. Praha, 1993. info
• Míchal, I.:. Ekologická stabilita. Praha, 1992. info
• Kudrna, K.:. Biosféra a lidstvo. Praha, 1988. info
• Duvigneaud, P.:. Ekologická syntéza. Praha, 1988. info
• Odum, E. P.:. Základy ekologie. Praha, 1977. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

* Successful completion of the final examination

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