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Lecturer(s)
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Tkadlec Emil, prof. MVDr. CSc.
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Course content
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The course highlights macroecological approaches to studying relationships among organisms and their environment in terms of their abundances, distribution and diversity. Consequnetly, natural processes operating on large spatial and temporal scales are central to macroecology. First part of the course explains the importance of space and spatial heterogeneity in ecology, the second is concerned with processes acting on species numbers (species assemblages, communities and biota), and the third one deals with temporal variability and processes operating in a long run.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Students gain deep inderstanding of processes affecting biodiversity on Earth.
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Prerequisites
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Good knowledge of ecology at the level of Master's degree programme.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam
Exam - knowledge and good orientation in modern theory of macroecology on selected subjects
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Recommended literature
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Brown J.H. (1995). Macroecology.. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Gaston K.J., Blackburn T.M. (2000). Pattern and Process in Macroecology.. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
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Hanski I.A., Gilpin M.E. (eds.). (1997). Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution.. Academic Press, San Diego.
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Hansson L., Fahrig L., Merriam G. (eds). (1995). Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes.. Chapmann et Hall, New York.
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Risklefs, R.E., Schluter, D. (eds). (1993). Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Rosenzweig M. (1995). Species Diversity in Space and Time.. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Schluter D. (2000). The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation.. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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