Protection and Restoration of Water Environments

elective courses
obligatory courses

The course includes lectures given by several representatives of the above Departments and practices connected to the lectures, involving a two-day long field part and a lab part located at the Departments' labs. The course introduces to reasons of freshwater degradation and provides basis for planning protection and restoration measures. Students get to know various freshwater and wetland habitats and assess for the degree of their degradation, learn about external and internal reasons for lake eutrophication and how to identify them, as well as about basic biological indicators of eutrophication. They learn how to use biological methods of water protection and restoration both in the field and laboratory. Using provided, specific examples they assess the degree of threat and lake susceptibility to eutrophication and suggest method of water protection and quality improvement.

1. Water in a changing world

2. Human impacts on aquatic environments

2.1 Exploatation of the living resources

2.2 Species diversity and alien species

2.3 Technical modification of freshwater habitats

2.4 Pollution

2.4.1 Eutrophication (causes and examples, microbial loop, algae and cyanobacteria, problems to be solved)

2.4.2 Toxic pollution

2.4.3 Acidification

2.4.4 Thermal pollution

3. The biological assessment of water quality

3.1 Running waters

3.2 Lakes and reservoirs

4. Management of water resources

4.1 Biological, chemical and physical methods of protection and restoration of

freshwater habitats

4.2 Water Framework Directive

1. Natural and altered freshwater habitats - Department of Environmental Botany

2. Eutrophication

2.1 Microbial indicators of eutrophication - Microbial Ecology Department

2.2 Internal load: microorganisms and invertebrates and phosphorus release from lake sediment - Department of Hydrobiology

3. Protection of freshwaters

2.1 Constructed wetlands - Department of Hydrobiology

2.2 Watershed and trophic state of lakes - Department of Hydrobiology

2.3 Restoration of lakes : top-down and bottom-up techniques - Department of Hydrobiology

Allan J. D. 1998 - Ekologia wód płynących - PWN

Allan J.D. 1996 - Stream ecology. Structure and function of running waters - Chapman and Hall

Chełmicki W. 2002 - Woda. zasoby, degradacja,

ochrona. PWN, Warszawa

Cooke G. D. et al. 1986 - Lake and reservoir restoration - Butterworth Publishers

Kajak Z. 1979 - Eutrofizacja jezior (Lake eutrophication) - PWN

Lampert W., Sommer U. 2001 - Ekologia wód śródlądowych (Ecology of inland waters) - PWN

Overbeck J. Chróst R.J. (ed) 1984 - Microbial Ecology of Lake Plußsee - Springer Verlag

Rheinheimer G 1987 - Mikrobiologia wód (Aquatic microbiology) - PWRiL