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Course code: BŻS10057f15Semester: 2015/2016 winter
Name: Biometeorology
Major: Food Safety
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Adam Roman prof. nadzw., dr Ewa Popiela-Plebna
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: student can describe basic factors determining the weather and climate, also explains the reasons of their changeability; student can explain the influence of changing climate conditions on variability of living organisms; student can describe the influence of changing meteorological conditions on the functioning of living organisms; student can explain the effect of anthropogenic factors of air environmental on people and animals. Skills: student can explain the interaction between the environment and living organisms; student can prepare presentation on a topic connected to climate and weather factors influecing on living organisms.
Competences: Student can discuss the effect of meteorological phenomena in nature; student keeps safety rules connection with the prevalence of hazards in the environment; student understands the need to supplement the knowledge during whole life.
Prerequisites: Physics (or biophysics), animal's physiology
Course content: Climate factors and their influence on climate types; weather factors and their variability; relationships between weather factors; influence of meteorological elements on human and animal organisms; the adaptation of living organisms to defined climate conditions, acclimatization; the adaptationof living organisms to changing weather conditions, meteotropismus, climatotherapy
Recommended literature: Berke-Nowak G.: Pogoda a zdrowie, Kraków 1998. Bogucki J. (red.): Biometeorologia turystyki i rekreacji. Poznań 1999. Grączewski J.: Wpływ pogody na zdrowie człowieka. PZWL, Poznań 1967. Jankowiak J. (red.), Biometeorologia człowieka. PZWL, Warszawa 1976. Kozłowska T., Błażejczyk K., Krawczyk B.: Biometeorologia człowieka. Monografie IGiPZ PAN, Warszawa 1997. Roman A.: Podstawy biometeorologii. Wyd. UP Wrocław, 2011.
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