ECTS
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Course code: BBS20197f11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Animal ecology
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 0
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr Elżbieta Kowalska
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: During the course, the students widens knowledge on the structure and mechanisms of functioning of ecological systems. The student is capable of using various methods of ecological research, knows adaptation strategies of organisms to environmental conditions, understands relations between organisms and their environment. The student is able to apply ecological principles in environment protection and nature conservancy.
Competences: Passing the course permits conducting ecological examinations and working in ecological service and state administration in the area of broadly understood nature conservancy.
Prerequisites: zoology and ecology
Course content: Research methods in animal ecology. Ecogeographic rules. Isolating mechanisms: the ecological isolation. Metabolism and bioenergetics. Levels of ecological organization. Relationships between organisms. Biocenosis. Evolution in ecosystems. Biodiversity. Legal systems of environmental protection and nature conservancy.
Recommended literature: Krebs Ch. J., 2001, Ekologia. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa. Weiner J., 2003, Życie i ewolucja biosfery. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa. MacKenzi (red.), 2002, Krótkie wykłady z ekologii. Wydawnictwo PWN, Warszawa Krebs J.R., Davies N.B., 2001, Wprowadzenie do ekologii behawioralnej. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa. Andrzejewski R., Falińska K., 1986, Populacje roślin i zwierząt. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa. Górecki A., Kozłowski J., Gębczyński M., 1987, Ćwiczenia z ekologii. Kraków-Białystok.
Assessment methods: Completion of laboratory training; minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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