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Course code: BBS20243o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Biogeography
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 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 Phytogeography and Zoogeography under Area, Zonation and Biogeographic Regions, Faunal Systems, Centers of animal Distribution for discussed examples, and fundamentals of Island.
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: Systematic botany, General ecology, Plant Morphology, Palaeontology, Invertebrates Zoology, Vertebrates Zoology.
Course content: History of Biogeography, distribution of species, dispersal and immigration, speciation and extinction, geography of diversification, glaciations and biogeographic dynamics in Pleistocene, fundamental biogeographic processes, island biogeography.
Recommended literature: Kornaś, J. Medwecka-Kornaś, A. Geografia roślin. PWN 2002. Kostrowicki, A.S.: Geografia biosfery: biogeografia dynamiczna lądów. PWN Warszawa, 1999. Lomolino, M., Riddle, B., Brown, J.: Biogeography. Sinauer Associates, 2006. Podbielkowski, Z. Fitogeografia części świata - tom I i II. PWN Warszawa, 2002. Udvardy M. D. F.: Zoogeografia dynamiczna. PWN, Warszawa, 1978. Umiński T. Zwierzęta i kontynenty. PZWS.Warszawa, 1968.
Assessment methods: Oral or written exam (test); minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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