PřF:Z5151 Biodiversity risks - Course Information
Z5151 Environmental risks of biodiversity
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 15:00–16:50 Z2,01032
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- KREDITY_MIN(40)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 6/25, only registered: 1/25 - 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
- This course aims to explore biological diversity patterns driven by environmental factors. Ecological effects of natural and anthropogenically modified conditions on biodiversity will be described. Risk analyses will be presented using examples of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems (habitat modifications, climate changes, land use changes, biological invasions, chemical pollution).
- Learning outcomes
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able:
- to describe basic ecosystem structure and processes
- to characterize attributes of biological diversity and evaluate its relations to environmental risks
- to apply DPSIR scheme in model terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
- to understand ecological relationships in habitat alterations, climate change and chemical pollution
- to understand concepts of ecosystem services, invasions and ecosystem rehabilitations - Syllabus
- 1) Introduction (ecosystem structure, biological diversity, ecological processes)
- 2) Biodiversity – concepts, attributes, drivers
- 3) Biodiversity – spatio-temporal patterns
- 4) Environmental risks (typology); DPSIR scheme (Driving forces, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses)
- 5) Stress ecology
- 6) Biodiversity and ecosystem processes
- 7) Climate-biodiversity relationships
- 8) Scenarios of land use change
- 9) Habitat changes (Natura 2000 sites, Habitat Directive, Nature Conservation)
- 10) Environmental chemicals and biodiversity
- 11) Biological invasions
- 12) Ecosystem services
- 13) Biodiversity risk assessment
- Literature
- Atlas of biodiversity risk. Edited by Josef Settele. 1st pub. Sofia: Pensoft, 2010, xv, 264. ISBN 9789546424464. info
- MAGURRAN, Anne E. Measuring biological diversity. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, viii, 256. ISBN 0632056339. info
- Ecological modeling in risk assessment : chemical effects on populations, ecosystems, and landscapes. Edited by Robert A. Pastorok. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 2002, 302 s. ISBN 1566705746. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Examination has an oral form
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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