Ecology and Environmental Protection D

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Course ID:	1400-112EKO
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Ecology and Environmental Protection D
Name in Polish:	Ekologia z ochroną środowiska D
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Biology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Short description:	Ecology: the subject and object of research. The scope of research (the temporal and spatial scale). Basic ecological terms. Levels of life organization (biosphere, ecosystem, population, individual) and a degree of their integration. The global scale and problems of the contemporary world. Renewable and unrenewable resources. Diversity of resources in the global scale. Matter circulation and energy flow. Productivity. Variability of individuals and natural selection. Relations between individuals and between individuals and the environment. Interspecies interactions. The evolution of interactions - coevolution. Changes of biodiversity in time and space. Ecology and nature protection
Full description:	Ecology as a scientific discipline, the scope of interests, a definition. The popular understanding of ecology; ecology as the science of natural environment. The genesis of ecology. Ecology and problems of the contemporary world. Basic ecological terms (environment, habitat, limiting factor, population, ecosystem etc.). Ecology and the science of evolution. Variability and natural selection. Ecological consequences of diversified reproductiveness and survival. Adaptations. Life strategies and the evolution of their most important parameters. Conflicts, compromises or evolutionary dilemmas. The optimization theory. Interactions between organisms and the environment, ecological tolerance, ecological niche. Physiology and ecology of an individual, energy balance. A population as a set of individuals. Interactions between individuals. Demographic parameters and population processes. Isolated populations. Metapopulations. The ecology of interspecies interactions: interference and exploitation. The evolution of biotic interactions; coevolution. A biocenosis as a set of individuals of different species. Biocenosis structure. Biodiversity and methods of its assessment. The concept of an ecosystem. Trophic structure, bioenergetics of food chains. Productivity of ecosystems. Ecological succession, climax. Ecological units higher than an ecosystem. The concept of ecological landscape. Perspectives and tendencies of ecology development in Poland and in the world. Applications of ecology in nature protection and shaping the environment. Biodiversity protection
Bibliography:	1. Weiner, J. 1999. Życie I ewolucja biosfery, PWN, Warszawa. 2. Begon, M.,Mortimer, M. 1989. Ekologia populacji. Studium porównawcze zwierząt i roślin. PWRiL, Warszawa, 356 s. 3. Falińska, K. 1996. Ekologia roślin. Podstawy teoretyczne, populacje, zbiorowiska, procesy. PWN, Warszawa. 4. Krebs, Ch. J., 1996. Ekologia. PWN, Warszawa. 5. Begon, M., Harper, J.L., Townsend, C.R., 1996. Ecology. Individuals, Populations, and Communities. 3. wyd., Blackwell, 876 s.

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