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Lecturer(s)
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Hekera Petr, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Drozd Pavel
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Kuras Tomáš, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Biological indicators. Characteristics and types of bioindication. Basic methodology, biological variables, environmental and biotic indicators. Bioindication of air pollution by wood-destroying fungi, lichens and mosses. Use of lichens as testing organisms. Bioindication of eutrophication of water - "water bloom and vegetation hue". Fungi and yeasts as indicators of water saprobity. Biomonitoring of freshwater, water quality monitoring, saprobic index. Saprobiological water evaluation based on the analysis of zoocoenoses. Use of aquatic macrophytes to indicate water pollution and for tertiary wastewater treatment. Ruderal communities as bioindicators. Indicatingly significant species of the ichtyofauna of the CR. Biomonitoring as a science. Monitoring of species and their protection. Monitoring of the succession of biocoenoses in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems, classification of relictness of the presence of representatives of bioindicatingly significant groups of animals. Indicators for naturalness of biocoenoses in specific types of habitat. Monitoring of the succession of biocoenoses in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems. Landscape monitoring, degree of the landscape deterioration. Prehistoric and historic changes in the landscape due to the effect of human activities.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
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- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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General part of lecture series will provide students with brief principles and methodological fundamentals of bioindications (and of biomonitoring) - integral part of the evaluation of all types of environments. Special part will focus on examples of both the classical bioindication methods working with traditionally used parameters such as diversity of communities, saprobic valence and bioindicative weight of species and methods based on the use of knowledge of ecology (bionomics) of selected groups of fauna and flora.
Introduction to the methodological principles of Bioindication - Familiarity with examples and applications bioindicating methods
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio, Seminar Work
Writing a paper concerning a studied issue (selection from assigned topics).
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Recommended literature
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BYRD J.H., CASTNER J.L. Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations. 2000, CRC..
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DANĚK L. Možnosti využití entomologie v kriminalistice. 1990, Praha.
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DROZD P. Význam a využití nových ekologických poznatků pro ochranu přírody. 2004, Ostrava..
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KOLEKTIV. ČSN 75 7716, 1998 Praha.
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Larcher W. (2003). Physiological plant ecology. Ecophysiology and stress physiology of functional groups. Springer, pp. 513.
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MOOG O. Fauna aquatica austriaca. 1995, Wien..
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ROSENBERG, D. M. & RESH, V. H. Freshwater biomonitoring and benthic makroinvertebrates. 1993, London..
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SINCLAIR A.R.E., FRYXELL J., CAUGHLEY G. Wildlife Ecology, Conservation And Management. 2006, Blackwell Publishing Professional..
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SLÁDEČEK, V., SLÁDEČKOVÁ A. A Atlas vodních organismů se zřetelem na vodárenství, povrchové vody a čistírny odpadních vod. 1997, Praha..
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SPELLERBERG. I. F. Monitorování ekologických změn. 1995, Brno..
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