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Course code: RTSS10368f14
Semester: 2014/2015 winter
Name: Forest ecosystems - threats and conservation
Major: Agricultural and Forestry Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Dr inż. Daniel Pruchniewicz
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Students will develop a basic understanding of nature conservation in forest ecosystems. They will become aware of the threats to the forest ecosystems and methods for counteracting them. By attending lectures, the students will have an opportunity to review legal regulations pertaining to forest protection, they will learn how to describe and characterize forest vegetation with particular emphasis on habitat features. Students will explore practical methods of nature conservation employed by the State Forests units. Skills: Student will be capable of identifying and characterizing: a) forest species, b) forest types. They will gain knowledge about the main threats to the forest ecosystems and understand how to counteract them. During the classes, the students will draw up a forest management and conservation plan.

Competences: Student will understand the need to protect the forest ecosystems. The course participants will be able to demonstrate how to reconcile the traditional forest management with non-productive functions of forests and nature conservation on the regional scale.

Prerequisites: (-)

Course content: During lectures, the students will be acquainted with basic issues concerning the conservation of forests and green areas: I. legal regulations related to the forest protection; II. approaches used to describe and characterize forest vegetation with particular emphasis on its habitat; III. threats to the forests ecosystems and methods for preventing them. During classes, the students will draw up a forest management and conservation plan.

Recommended literature: - Bieszczad S., Sobota J. (red.). 1999. Zagrożenia, ochrona i kształtowanie środowiska przyrodniczo-rolniczego. Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej we Wrocławiu pp. 534 - Krebs C.J. 2011. Ekologia stosowana III: Ochrona przyrody, w: Ekologia. PWN, Warszawa, str. 329-355. - Liro A., Dyduch-Falniowska A. 2002. Natura 2000. Europejska sieć ekologiczna. Ministerstwo Środowiska. Warszawa, pp. 101 - Matuszkiewicz W., Sikorski P., Szwed W., Wierzba M. 2012. Zbiorowiska roślinne polski – lasy i zarośla. Wydawnictwo naukowe PWN, Warszawa pp. 518 - Poradniki ochrony siedlisk i gatunków. Tom 5: Lasy i bory. http:// http://natura2000.gdos.gov.pl/strona/tom-6 - Pullin A.S. 2004. Biologiczne podstawy ochrony przyrody. PWN, Warszawa, pp. 393 - Symonides E. 2007. Ochrona przyrody. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Warszawa, pp. 767 - Wiśniewski J, Gwiazdowicz D.J. 2009. Ochrona przyrody. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego w Poznaniu. Poznań, pp. 445

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

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