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Course code: RSSS20388f14
Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Application of plants for the environment assessment
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Ewa Fudali, prof. nadzw., dr Katarzyna Szczepańska
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge: The student has a knowledge in a field of the environment protection. He estimates human activity and impact upon the natural environment. Skills: Student can analyse factors influencing the natural environment. He is ready to attain information about effects of human impact and the environment protection from literature and other sources.

Competences: Competences: The student is aware of the responsibility for the environment state. Understands the need to work in teams but also can work individually.

Prerequisites: Ecology

Course content: Theorethical grounds of bioindication. Aims and range of the air, soils and superficial waters phyto-indication. Methods using lichens, mosses, liverworts and vascular plants for the air purity assessment. Plant indicators of the soil properties. Biotests used for the assessment of the specific substances contain in the soils. Macrophytes as bioindicators of the waters purity. Conception of the relic species and their application in the biological assessment of the vegetation transformation. Plants as bioindicators of the climate change.

Recommended literature: Fałtynowicz W. 1997. Wykorzystanie porostów do oceny zanieczyszczenia powietrza. Fundacja Centrum Edukacji Ekologicznej Wsi, Krosno. Zimny H. 2006. Ekologiczna ocena stanu środowiska. Bioindykacja i biomonitoring. Agencja Reklamowo-Wydawnicza A. Grzegorczyk, Warszawa. Ciecierska H., Dynowska M. 2013. Biologiczne metody oceny stanu środowiska. II. Ekosystemy wodne. UW-M, Olsztyn.

Assessment methods: Knowledge: test of the lectures Skills: Assessment of the tasks realization Social competences: Validation of the selection of information and the correct interpretation in relation to the environment protection.

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