Ecology and Environmental Protection for Biotechnologists

General data

Course ID:	1400-112EKOBT-w
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 for Biotechnologists
Name in Polish:	Ekologia z ochroną środowiska dla Biotechnologów -W
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
Prerequisites (description):	Knowledge of basic issues and problems of macroecology (ecological problems in global scale and ecological premises of nature conservation)
Short description:	variability and natural selection. Life strategies , conflicts, compromises, evolutional dillemmas. Optimalisation theory. Fragmentation of population, isolated populations,metapopulation. Interactions between individuals. Evolution of biotic interactions: coevolution, species-habitat interactions, ecological tolerance, ecological niche. Ecosystems and biocenosis. Trophic structure, productivity of ecosystems. Succession and ecological balance. Biodiversity and methods of its evaluation and protection. Its change in time and space. Ecological principles of environment protection.
Bibliography:	1. Weiner, J.,1999. Życie i ewolucja biosfery. PWN Warszawa 2. Krebs, Ch.,J.1994.Ecology.The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance. Harper-Collins College Publishers 3. Sodhi, S.N., Ehrlich, P.R.(eds.) 2010. Conservation Biology for All. Oxford University Press
Learning outcomes:	Having completed the course the student:
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	(in Polish) Ocena końcowa jest oceną z egzaminu.
Practical placement:	(in Polish) Nie

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