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Course code: BBS10138f10Semester: 2010/2011 summer
Name: Agrophytosociology
Major: Biology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Danuta Parylak; dr hab. Piotr Sobkowicz
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student will be able to recognize and classify main communities of plants typical for agricultural fields. Students will learn on changes in agroecosystems (reversible and irreversible) being a result of human activity and used means of production.
Competences: Student will be able to assess given agroecosystem as biodiversity is concerned and show fitoindicators of environmental conditions and processes. This knowledge helps him to manage agricultural landscape, protect of the agricultural environment, and to use natural processes in agroecosystem for crop production.
Prerequisites: botany, ecology
Course content: Characteristics of agroecosystems compared to natural ecosystems, qualitative and quantitative traits of agrophyotobiocoenosis, interactions between crops and companion vegetation, indicator species (phytoindication), interactions between components of agroecoenosis, biodiversity of mixed cropping, dominant weed species on agricultural fields in Poland, soil weed seed bank and its role in agrocoenosis, weed resistance to herbicides and changes in agrophytocoenosis.
Recommended literature: 1. Dierschke H. 1997. Pflanzensoziologie. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart. 2. Falińska K. 1996. Ekologia roślin, PWN, Warszawa. 3. Falińska K. 1996. Osobnik, populacja, fitocenoza. PWN. 4. Fukarek F. 1965. Fitosocjologia. PWRiL. 5. Hofmeister H., Grave E. 1986. Lebensraum Acker. Paul Parey, Hamburg, Berlin, 6. Markow M. 1978. Agrofitocenologia. PWRiL, Warszawa, 7. Matuszkiewicz W. 2001. Przewodnik do oznaczania zbiorowisk roślinnych Polski. PWN, Warszawa. 8. Prończuk, J., 1982 - Podstawy ekologii rolniczej.
Assessment methods: Obligatory credit, written exam, 60% of knowledge required.
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