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Course code: RSSS10386f14
Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Methodology of ecological research
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Daniel Pruchniewicz
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Students acquire basic knowledge in formulating scientific problems and hypotheses. They learns the methods used in ecological studies - both the field and the laboratory. They knows the basic concepts describing the vegetation and her changes. They learns the methods used in population studies, experimental, phytosociological and the scope of research landscape ecology. Students learns the methods used during the collection biological samples and laboratory analysis. They knows the basic methods used in data analysis. Skills: Students can use the known methods in future professional work.

Competences: Competences: Students understands the need for ecological studies, appreciates the need for further training.

Prerequisites: Botany, ecology

Course content: During the lectures students learns the methods used in the short-term and long-term population studies, phytosociological, ecosystem and landscape ecology studies. They have knowledge of the methods used in laboratories. They able to use numerical methods in the analysis of ecological data. During field exercises students learns use the known methods in practice.

Recommended literature: - Allen S.E. 1989. Chemical Analysis of Ecological Materials. Second Edition, Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 367 - Dzwonko Z. 2007. Przewodnik do badań fitosocjologicznych. Vademecum Geobotanicum, pp. 304 - Faliński J.B. 2001. Przewodnik do długoterminowych badań ekologicznych. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, pp. 672 - Falińska K. 2002. Przewodnik do badań biologii populacji roślin. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, pp. 587 - Falińska K. 2004. Ekologia roślin. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa. pp. 512 - Ford E.D. 2000. Scientific Method for Ecological Research. Cambridge University Press, pp. 588 - Radojevic M., Bashkin V.M. 2006. Practical Environmental Analysis. Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing Cambridge pp. 457 - Richling A., Solon J. 2002. Ekologia krajobrazu. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, pp. 319 - Stanisz A. 2006. Przystępny kurs statystyki. Tom 1-3. StatSoft, Kraków pp. 1900

Assessment methods: Knowledge: Final test Skills: Assessment of prepared project. Social competence: Ability individual work, active participation in classes.

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