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Course code: BBS20113o11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Zoogeography
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr Andrzej Józef Woźnica
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course student will be able to have an overview of the body of information of Zoogeography under Area, Zonation and Zoogeographic Regions, Faunal Systems, Centers of animal Distribution for discussed examples, and fundamentals of Island Zoogeography.
Competences: Students will be recognizable with the theory of distributional under Distributional Aspects of Area and Species Numbers Relationships, Migration and Extinction, and to exhibit a gift to synthesize these principles.
Prerequisites: General ecology, Palaeontology, Invertebrates Zoology, Vertebrates Zoology.
Course content: : History of Zoogeography, distribution of species, dispersal and immigration, speciation and extinction, geography of diversification, glaciations and biogeographic dynamics in Pleistocene, fundamental biogeographic processes, island zoogeography.
Recommended literature: 1. Kostrowicki, A.S.: Geografia biosfery: biogeografia dynamiczna lądów. PWN Warszawa, 1999. 2. Lomolino, M., Riddle, B., Brown, J.: Biogeography. Sinauer Associates, 2006 3. Udvardy M. D. F.: Zoogeografia dynamiczna. PWN, Warszawa, 1978. 4. Umiński T. Zwierzęta i kontynenty. PZWS.Warszawa, 1968.
Assessment methods: written exam (test) after semester 8; minimum 60% of knowledge to pass. Language of instruction: Polish and English if possible.
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