PřF:Bi6750 Limnological methods - Course Information
Bi6750 Limnological methods
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Petr Pařil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Barbora Hutňan Chattová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jan Sychra, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Marie Zhai, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Petr Pařil, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Pařil, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Bi6360 Limnobiology ||NOW( Bi6360 Limnobiology )
Bi1030&&Bi7451&&(Bi6360c||now(Bi6360c)) - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (programme PřF, B-EKB)
- Course objectives
- Basic course of limnoecology - practise.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to use fundamental sampling methods, to measure physico-chemical parameters and elementary data processing. Also will be familiarised with field protocols and acquire basic data from available sources.
- Syllabus
- 1. Information sources: maps for water authorities, annual reports, reference manuals, GIS. 2. Methods for measurement of aquatic environment parameters. 3. Sampling methods. 4. Analysis of fytoplankton samples. 5. Analysis of perifyton samples. 6. Field excursion: measurement of parameters of aquatic environment in the field, sampling - running water. 7. Field excursion: measurement of parameters of aquatic environment in the field, sampling - standing water. 8. Analysis of aquatic macroinvertebrate samples I. 9. Analysis of aquatic macroinvertebrate samples II. 10. Analysis of samples from hyporeal. 11. Analysis of zooplankton samples I. 12. Analysis of zooplankton samples II. 13. Methods of data analysis I. 14. Methods of data analysis II.
- Literature
- Methods in stream ecology. Edited by F. Richard Hauer - Gary Anthony Lamberti. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, xv, 877. ISBN 0123329086. info
- WETZEL, Robert G. and Gene E. LIKENS. Limnological analyses. 3rd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000, xv, 429. ISBN 0387989285. info
- Methoden der biologischen Wasseruntersuchung. Edited by Wolf von Tümpling - Günther Friedrich. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1999, 545 s. ISBN 3437351702. info
- DYKYJOVÁ, Dagmar. Metody studia ekosystémů. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1989, 690 s. info
- HRBÁČEK, Jaroslav. Limnologické metody. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1985, 208 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures with discussion, lab and field practice
- Assessment methods
- Oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: jarní semestr lichých let.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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