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Course code: BHS10019f12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: GLOBAL ECOLOGY
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 20
Lecturer: dr Elżbieta Kowalska
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course students will be able to characterize basic ecological ideas, ecological properties of population, biocoenosis, ecosystem and ecological succession Theory of homeostasis and evolution of ecosystem.
Competences: The completion of course are preparing to individual, basic research of ecology.
Prerequisites: Zoology, botany
Course content: The course contains main problems of ecology as science and the most important investigation techniques used in it. More detailed problems are: basic ecological ideas, analysis of type life environment (hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere) and influence of abiotic factors (climatic, physical, and chemical ) on organisms, theory of range of ecological tolerance of organism, population and its ecological properties and structures, dynamics and fluctuation of numbers, forms of interspecies effects (nutritive, competition and co-operation), properties and role of ecosystem and biocoenosis, ecological succession (primary and secondary), energetic and nutritive relationships, theory of homeostasis and ecosystem evolution.
Recommended literature: Krebs Ch.J.: Ekologia. Eksperymentalna analiza rozmieszczenia i liczebności, PWN, W-wa, 1996 Wiąckowski St.K., Ekologia ogólna. Oficyna Wydawnicza Branta, Bydgoszcz 1998 Weiner J., Życie i ewolucja biosfery. PWN W-wa, 2005 Odum E.P.: Podstawy ekologii, PWRiL, W-wa, 1982 Trojan P.: Ekologia ogólna, PWN, W-wa, 1978
Assessment methods: Completion of practical Minimum 60% of knowledge to pass
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