Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Understand basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to provide a general description of a community;
- to understand main theories and hypotheses explaining variation in species diversity at local to global scales;
- to select appropriate methods to measure diversity and analyse structure of communities in different ecological contexts;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations;
  • 6. Current global change of biodiversity: its extent and causes;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 9. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 10. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 11. Metacommunities: types of metacommunities, Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach a score of at least 10 points. During the semester, students can take optional tests; points from these tests are added to the test points in the final exam and can improve the grade.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
Online lectures recorded during the covid pandemic are available at the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnmHswspozDbTChtvyjGPFTMfInxLU9nM. The current version of lectures is similar, though there are small updates.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Understand basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to provide a general description of a community;
- to understand main theories and hypotheses explaining variation in species diversity at local to global scales;
- to select appropriate methods to measure diversity and analyse structure of communities in different ecological contexts;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations;
  • 6. Current global change of biodiversity: its extent and causes;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 9. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 10. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 11. Metacommunities: types of metacommunities, Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach a score of at least 10 points. During the semester, students can take optional tests; points from these tests are added to the test points in the final exam and can improve the grade.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
Online lectures recorded during the covid pandemic are available at the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnmHswspozDbTChtvyjGPFTMfInxLU9nM. The current version of lectures is similar, though there are small updates.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Understand basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to provide a general description of a community;
- to understand main theories and hypotheses explaining variation in species diversity at local to global scales;
- to select appropriate methods to measure diversity and analyse structure of communities in different ecological contexts;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations;
  • 6. Current global change of biodiversity: its extent and causes;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 9. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 10. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 11. Metacommunities: types of metacommunities, Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach a score of at least 10 points. In case of worsening epidemiological situation, the exam can be oral through a videocall.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
In autumn 2020, this lecture will be running online. It is available at the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnmHswspozDbTChtvyjGPFTMfInxLU9nM. Online consultations will be realized through MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=b38dac48-98ca-447f-916e-6806ee16b972&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_OGNkMmNhNzUtODA2Yy00MjcyLTg2ZjctZmIyNGRmMWI4MjY3@thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252211904f23-f0db-4cdc-96f7-390bd55fcee8%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522cc09ce15-79fd-4c40-87da-ba9165cfaf0d%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&suppressPrompt=true
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Understand basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to provide a general description of a community;
- to understand main theories and hypotheses explaining variation in species diversity at local to global scales;
- to select appropriate methods to measure diversity and analyse structure of communities in different ecological contexts;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations;
  • 6. Current global change of biodiversity: its extent and causes;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 9. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 10. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 11. Metacommunities: types of metacommunities, Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach a score of at least 10 points. In case of worsening epidemiological situation, the exam can be oral through a videocall.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
In autumn 2020, this lecture will be running online. It is available at the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnmHswspozDbTChtvyjGPFTMfInxLU9nM. Online consultations will be realized through MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=b38dac48-98ca-447f-916e-6806ee16b972&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_OGNkMmNhNzUtODA2Yy00MjcyLTg2ZjctZmIyNGRmMWI4MjY3@thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252211904f23-f0db-4cdc-96f7-390bd55fcee8%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522cc09ce15-79fd-4c40-87da-ba9165cfaf0d%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&suppressPrompt=true
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 12:00–13:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Understand basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to provide a general description of a community;
- to understand main theories and hypotheses explaining variation in species diversity at local to global scales;
- to select appropriate methods to measure diversity and analyse structure of communities in different ecological contexts;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations;
  • 6. Current global change of biodiversity: its extent and causes;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 9. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 10. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 11. Metacommunities: types of metacommunities, Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach a score of at least 10 points. In case of worsening epidemiological situation, the exam can be oral through a videocall.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
In autumn 2020, this lecture will be running online. It is available at the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnmHswspozDbTChtvyjGPFTMfInxLU9nM. Online consultations will be realized through MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=b38dac48-98ca-447f-916e-6806ee16b972&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_OGNkMmNhNzUtODA2Yy00MjcyLTg2ZjctZmIyNGRmMWI4MjY3@thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252211904f23-f0db-4cdc-96f7-390bd55fcee8%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522cc09ce15-79fd-4c40-87da-ba9165cfaf0d%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&suppressPrompt=true
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Understand basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able:
- to provide a general description of a community;
- to understand main theories and hypotheses explaining variation in species diversity at local to global scales;
- to select appropriate methods to measure diversity and analyse structure of communities in different ecological contexts;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 17. 9. to Fri 14. 12. Mon 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
At the end of the course students should be able to explain basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 18. 9. to Fri 15. 12. Mon 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
At the end of the course students should be able to explain basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 19. 9. to Sun 18. 12. Wed 10:00–11:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
At the end of the course students should be able to explain basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: definition and delimitation of communities, aims of community ecology and macroecology, brief history of the field;
  • 2. Community structure: individualistic and organismal concept of community, niche theory and competitive exclusion, assembly rules;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area: theory of the S-A curve;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
At the end of the course students should be able to explain basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:50 D32/329
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
At the end of the course students should be able to explain basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Thu 11:00–12:50 BR3
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
At the end of the course students should be able to explain basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
The final written exam comprises 20 questions. When a student answers a question correctly, he/she is awarded a point for it. To pass the test, the student must reach the score of at least 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Tue 9:00–10:50 BR3
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course explains basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written or oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:50 BR2
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course explains basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written or oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 11:00–12:50 BR3
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course explains basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written or oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 9:00–10:50 BR4
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course explains basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Assessment methods
written or oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:50 Bpg
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( Bi5080 Basics of ecology || Bi2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( Bi1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates || Bi2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( Bi2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&( Bi5040 Biostatistics - basic course )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecological faktors and its classifications, aminal adaptations to environment, climatic conditions, nutrition and biotic factors, population and community ecology,ecosystem, trophic chains, ecosystem metabolism and processes, production, biomes,pollution and global warning.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:50 BR1
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( B5080 Basics of ecology || BI5080 Basics of ecology || BI2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( B1030 Syst. & phyl. of invertebrates || BI1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates || BI2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( B2090 System phylogeny vertebrates || BI2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&(! B6340 Animal ecology )&&( Bi5040 Biostatistics - basic course )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecological faktors and its classifications, aminal adaptations to environment, climatic conditions, nutrition and biotic factors, population and community ecology,ecosystem, trophic chains, ecosystem metabolism and processes, production, biomes,pollution and global warning.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:50 BR2
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( B5080 Basics of ecology || BI5080 Basics of ecology || BI2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( B1030 Syst. & phyl. of invertebrates || BI1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates || BI2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( B2090 System phylogeny vertebrates || BI2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&(! B6340 Animal ecology )&&( Bi5040 Biostatistics - basic course )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecological faktors and its classifications, aminal adaptations to environment, climatic conditions, nutrition and biotic factors, population and community ecology,ecosystem, trophic chains, ecosystem metabolism and processes, production, biomes,pollution and global warning.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Timetable
Tue 9:00–10:50 B1,01004
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( B5080 Basics of ecology || BI5080 Basics of ecology || BI2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( B1030 Syst. & phyl. of invertebrates || BI1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates || BI2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( B2090 System phylogeny vertebrates || BI2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&(! B6340 Animal ecology )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecology, definition, conception. Abiotic factors - conditions and sources, Populations, Interactions - intraspecific and interspecific, competition versus coexistence, Predation, Parasitism, Ecology of communities, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Life-history theory
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( B5080 Basics of ecology || BI5080 Basics of ecology || BI2000 System & Evolution of Animals )&&( B1030 Syst. & phyl. of invertebrates || BI1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates || BI2000 System & Evolution of Animals )&&( B2090 System phylogeny vertebrates || BI2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&(! B6340 Animal ecology )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecological faktors and its classifications, aminal adaptations to environment, climatic conditions, nutrition and biotic factors, population and community ecology,ecosystem, trophic chains, ecosystem metabolism and processes, production, biomes,pollution and global warning.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( B5080 Basics of ecology || BI5080 Basics of ecology )&&( B1030 Syst. & phyl. of invertebrates || BI1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates )&&( B2090 System phylogeny vertebrates || BI2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&(! B6340 Animal ecology )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecological faktors and its classifications, aminal adaptations to environment, climatic conditions, nutrition and biotic factors, population and community ecology,ecosystem, trophic chains, ecosystem metabolism and processes, production, biomes,pollution and global warning.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Z důvodu zahraniční stáže učitele se tento předmět v akademickém roce 2002/2003 neotevírá.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2024

The course is not taught in Spring 2024

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2023

The course is not taught in Spring 2023

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2022

The course is not taught in Spring 2022

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2021

The course is not taught in Spring 2021

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2020

The course is not taught in Spring 2020

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2019

The course is not taught in Spring 2019

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
spring 2018

The course is not taught in spring 2018

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2017

The course is not taught in Spring 2017

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2016

The course is not taught in Spring 2016

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2015

The course is not taught in Spring 2015

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2014

The course is not taught in Spring 2014

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2013

The course is not taught in Spring 2013

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2012

The course is not taught in Spring 2012

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2011

The course is not taught in Spring 2011

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2010

The course is not taught in Spring 2010

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2011 - acreditation

The information about the term Autumn 2011 - acreditation is not made public

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course explains basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Community: delimitation, structure and methods of description (classification and gradient analysis), relationship between local and regional processes, aims of community ecology and macroecology, individualistic and organismal concept of community, assembly rules;
  • 2. Community changes in time: types and mechanisms of succession, climax, early and late successional species and their traits, cyclical changes of communities;
  • 3. Measuring diversity: species richness, indices of diversity, equitability and beta diversity;
  • 4. Local species richness: niche theory and competitive exclusion, relationship between species richness, productivity and disturbance, regional effects on local species richness, species pool;
  • 5. Global biodiversity: estimations of the number of species on the Earth, stability vs. increase, mass extinctions and adaptive radiations, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Biodiversity of islands: theory of island biogeography and its generalizations;
  • 7. Relationship between number of species and area;
  • 8. Latitudinal and altitudinal biodiversity gradient: hypotheses explaining large tropical biodiversity, altitudinal gradient and mid-domain effect, gradients of habitat heterogeneity;
  • 9. Relative abundance distributions: statistical and biological models, species rarity;
  • 10. Null models in macroecology: Hubbell's neutral theory;
  • 11. Metabolic theory of ecology: relationship between energy and speed of biological processes including evolution and succession;
  • 12. Biological invasions: basic terms of invasion ecology, differences in invasibility of large areas or habitats, theory of invasibility, species richness vs. invasibility.
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written or oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Animal ecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Gelnar, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, PhD.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( Bi5080 Basics of ecology || Bi2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( Bi1030 Syst. & evol. of invertebrates || Bi2000 Animal System and Evolution )&&( Bi2090 System evolution vertebrates )&&( Bi5040 Biostatistics - basic course )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Ecological faktors and its classifications, aminal adaptations to environment, climatic conditions, nutrition and biotic factors, population and community ecology,ecosystem, trophic chains, ecosystem metabolism and processes, production, biomes,pollution and global warning.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to ecology, definition and roots of ecology, scientific interference, ecology as e system, patterns of living world, ecology today. Environment, ecological factors and its classification, limiting factors, ecological valence and tolerance, selection and adaptations, genotype and phenotype context of speciation. Climate, atmospheric movement, climate modification, microclimate, ecological scienificance of climate diagrams. Important abiotic factors that limit distribution: - temperature, thermal relations in animals, poikilotherms and homoiotherms, animal heat strategies; - lihgt, nature of light, light tolerance, photoperiodism, annual, circadian and other periodicity and rhytms; - moisure ans water, structure of water, physical properties of water, humidity, water balance in animals; - soil, definition of soil, soil as an environment, soil characteristics, development and major orders, humus, other physical and chemical environmental factors; Important biotic factors that limit distributions: - intraspecific competition and its nature, main characteristics, actual effects of intraspecific competition, density dependence, negative competition, food ecology; - reproducitve effort, cost of reproduction, diapause and dormancy, ecology of sex, paradoxial costs of sex, geografphical and taxonomical distribution of sex, individual variability, maintenance of variability and biological heterogenity; - interspecific competition, predation, canibalism, predato-prey systems, herbivory, commensalism, ammnesalism, parasitism and mutualism, parasitism and disease, parasite diversity. Population ecology, density, distribution and age, mortality, natality and migrality, structure of population growth and dynamics, population regulation, r-K selection. Community ecology, community organization and structure, spatial patterns, niche, synusia and guild, species dominance, species diversity, theories of diversity, vertical structures, horizontal patterns, island ecology. Community change, temporal structure, terrestrial and aquatic succession, cuccession and time, climax. Ecosystem ecology, production in ecosystems, primary and secondary production, trophic structure, food chains and webs, trophic levels, ecological pyramids. Ecosystems diversity, biomes, grasslands and savannas, shrublands and deserts, tundra and tajga, temperate and tropical forests, alkes and ponds, flowing-water ecosystems, wetlands, oceans, coral reefs, estuaries and salt marshes. Biosphere, environmental chemistry, lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, Earth-air-water factory, essential nutrients, cycles in ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, water cycle, gasseous cycles, sedimentary cycles. Effects of humans, human population growth, loss of wildlife trough human activity, habitat destruction, how to solve ecological problems, indicator species, waste and population. Recommended literature: Begon M., Harper J. I., Towsend C. R.: Ecology, Individuals, populations and communities, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 945 pp. Begon M., Mortimer M.: Population Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1993, 220 pp. Brewer R.: The Science of Ecology, Saunders Coll. Pulb., 1994, 773 pp. Cockburn A.: An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1991, 370 pp. Collin P. H.: Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment, Peter Collin Publishing, 1992, 236 pp. Cox, C. B., Moore P. D.: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, Blackwell Sci. Publ., 1994, 326 pp. Duvigneaud P.: Ekologická syntéza, Academia Praha, 1988, 414 pp. Dykyjová D. a kol.: Metody studia ekosystémů, Academia Praha, 1989, 690 pp. Losos, B.: Ekologie živočichů, SPN Praha, 1984, 316 pp. Michal I.: Ekologická stabilita, Veronica a Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, 1994, 275 pp. Odum E. P.: Základy ekologie, Academia Praha, 1977, 733 pp. Rainswell R. W., Brimblecombe P., Dent D. L. Liss P. S.: Environmental Chemistry, The Earth-Air-Water factory, Edward Arnold, London-melbourne-Aucland, 1994, 184 pp. Smith R. L.: Elements of Ecology, Harper Collins Pulb., 1992, 617 pp.
Literature
  • Doporučená literatura viz osnova přednášky
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
spring 2012 - acreditation

The course is not taught in spring 2012 - acreditation

The information about the term spring 2012 - acreditation is not made public

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.

Bi6340 Community ecology and macroecology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation

The course is not taught in Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi5080 Basics of ecology
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
The course deals with basic structures and processes occurring in multi-species assemblages at local, regional and global scales, with focus on variation in species diversity and its causes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of community, individualistic and organismal community concept, spatial structure of a community, classification and gradient analysis;
  • 2. Temporal changes in communities, types and mechanisms of succession, early and late successional species and their biological traits;
  • 3. Diversity and evenness, types of diversity and their measurement, statistical distribution of population frequencies;
  • 4. Local biodiversity, species coexistence, niche and competitive exclusion theory, effects of productivity and disturbance;
  • 5. Evolution of global biodiversity, stability vs. increase, mass extinction, adaptive radiation, current global change of biodiversity;
  • 6. Species-area relationship;
  • 7. Global and regional gradients of species richness: latitudinal and altitudinal gradient, hypothesis on tropical biodiversity, gradients of environmental heterogeneity and productivity;
  • 8. Theory of island biogeography;
  • 9. Local vs. regional processes and their effect on community diversity, species pool theory;
  • 10. Dynamics of species and communities in fragmented landscapes, metapopulations;
  • 11. Null models in macroecology, Hubbell’s neutral theory;
  • 12. Metabolic theory of ecology, relationships between energy and speed of ecological processess including evolution and succession;
  • 13. Biological invasions and their effect on community structure, biotic homogenization.
Literature
  • KREBS, Charles J. Ecology :the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 5th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2001, xx, 695 s. ISBN 0-321-04289-1. info
  • BEGON, Michael, John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam: 18 questions (16 correct answers are required for grade A and 12 correct answers for passing the exam).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.