Bi8009 Ecosystem of tropical rainforest

Faculty of Science
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Assoc. Prof. MVDr. Ivona Foitová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Assoc. Prof. MVDr. Ivona Foitová, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Assoc. Prof. MVDr. Ivona Foitová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi6083 Bc. state exam system. biology
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
Course objectives
Actual situation of global biodiversity. Tropical rainforest. Changes of tropical rainforest. Protected areas in Indonesia. Medicinal resources of the tropical rainforest. Health in wild and self- medical behavioural.
Syllabus
  • Actual situation of global biodiversity: biodiversity of states, biodiversity of tropical ecosystems, endangered species. Tropical rainforest: types, structures, dynamics, tropical rainforest diversity, the Indo-Malyayn rainforest. Protected areas in Indonesia: esp. Sumatra and Kalimantan, research priorities and actual Czech research in those localities, field work and field methods. Changes of tropical rainforest: forest conservation, login and the timber trade, animal in logged forest, disturbed ecosystem, management for sustainability, priorities for action, human impacts, participation of local community. Medicinal resources of the tropical rainforest: natural products and medicine, the role of medicinal plants in health care in Indonesia, ethnofarmacology, conservation and tropical medicinal plant research. Health in wild and self -medical behavioural: medicinal plant at the food spectrum and possible self- medical behavioural in orang-utan and other great apes.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Forest, people and policies. info
  • Tropical forest community ecology. Edited by Walter P. Carson - Stefan A. Schnitzer. 1st pub. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, xvii, 517. ISBN 9781405189521. info
  • Forest biodiversity : lessons from history for conservation. Edited by O. Honnay. Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 2004, xiii, 285. ISBN 085199802X. info
  • Forest vegetation of Northeast Asia. Edited by Jiří Kolbek - Miroslav Šrůtek - Elgene Owen Box. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, xii, 462. ISBN 1402013701. info
  • BARNES, Burton Verne. Forest ecology. 4th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, xviii, 774. ISBN 0471308226. info
  • Forest decline and ozone : a comparison of controlled chamber and field experiments. Edited by Heinrich Sandermann - Alan R. Wellburn - Robert L. Heath. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997, xxi, 400. ISBN 3540613218. info
  • Forest round table on sustainable development. Edited by Steve Thompson - Allison Webb. Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 1994, 44 s. ISBN 1-895643-28-7. info
  • PENKA, Miroslav. Floodplain forest ecosystem. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1991, 629 s. ISBN 8020000178. info
  • BOROTA, Ján. Tropical forest some African and Asian case studies ... Zvolen: Ferest. and Wood T., 1991, 274 s. info
  • LONGMAN, Kenneth Alan and Jan JENÍK. Tropical forest and its environment. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons., Inc., 1987, 247 pp. ISBN 0-582-44678-3. info
Teaching methods
lecture, class discussion
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024.
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