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Course code: RSSN10256o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Hydrobiology
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 0 / 9 / 0
Lecturer: Dr hab. inż. Ryszard Polechoński, prof. nadzw.
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: The student in time of course purchases the theoretical knowledge as well as the practical skills the enabling leadership of investigations the hydrobiologicznych in basic range. The skill of taking to investigations of water the material purchases, the demersal settlings, flora and the faunas water, the carrying out the basic analysis physical the and chemical features the water, defining the propriety of water environment and his usefulness to definite aims.

Competences: The completion the course makes possible the work in hydrobiology laboratory as well as the institutions of protection of water environment, also in fishing, and it authorizes to leadership of straight lines of scientific investigations with range of hydrobiology also.

Prerequisites: Chemistry, botany, zoology

Course content: The water as chemical substance - the propriety, basic methods of investigation. The methodology of hydrobiologic investigations. Investigative equipment and his use. Taking to investigations hydrobiologic samples. The rivers, lakes, ponds - the charakteristics. Teams of water organisms. The review of the most important representatives of flora and the fauna of water. The adaptation of plants and the animals to life in water. The water organisms as bioindicators of waste-waters. Technical hydrobiology. Basis of protection of water environment.

Recommended literature: Dojlido J.R.: Chemia wód powierzchniowych. Wyd. Ekonomia i Środowisko, 1995. Kajak Z.: Hydrobiologia–limnologia. Ekosystemy wód śródlądowych. Wyd. Nauk. PWN, Warszawa 2003. Lampert W., Sommer U.: Ekologia wód śródlądowych. Wyd. Nauk. PWN Warszawa 1996. Namieśnik J., Łukasiak J., Jamrógiewicz Z.: Pobieranie próbek środowiskowych do analizy. PWN 1995. Podbielkowski Z., Tomaszewicz H.: Zarys hydrobotaniki Wyd. Nauk PWN Warszawa 1996. Stańczykowska A.: Ekologia naszych wód. Wyd. Szkol i Pedag. Warszawa 1997. Starmach K., Wróbel S., Pasternak K.: Hydrobiologia. Limnologia. PWN Warszawa 1978 i późniejsze. Periodic: Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, Aura, EJPAU, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Limnological Review.

Assessment methods: completion of laboratory training after semester, minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.

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