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Course code: RSSS10050o12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Ecology
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Teresa Brej
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: The effect of course is knowledge about some ecological problems which are very useful for undergraduate students. Students gain an integrated perspectives on the field of ecology by exploring topics as the scope of ecology, major biotic levels, population dynamics, ecosystems diversity, environmental pollution, protection of environment and also biodiversity.
Competences: Students know how ecological principles can be applied to address issues such as resource management, conservation biology, ecosystem health and restoration ecology.
Prerequisites: Botany; Zoology; Plant Physiology; Soil Sciences
Course content: Ecology – its relation to other sciences. Levels of organization hierarchy. Individual and population – interactions. Dynamics of populations. Population in communities. Concepts and models of ecosystem. Energy in ecological systems. Agroecosytems. Urban ecology. Environmental pollution. Responses of plants to environmental stresses. Biodiversity crisis.
Recommended literature: (1) Odum E.P. 1983. Basic Ecology.
(2) Begon M., Mortimer M. 1983. Population Ecology: A Unified Study of Animals and Plants.
(3). Krebs C.J. 1996. Ecology.
Assessment methods: examination after semester 4
Comment: Language of instruction: Polish, English possible