Stano Pekár“Populační ekologie živočichů“
dN
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• Population ecology (Resources, Conditions, Models)
• Population growth (Population censuses)
• Population structure (Stage/Age life-tables, k-factor analysis)
• Temperature (Degree-days)
• Intraspecific competition (Harvesting, Allee effect)
• Spatial ecology (Distribution, Dispersal, Metapopulations)
• Interspecific competition (Mutualism)
• Predation (Functional and numerical responses)
• Predation models (Host-pathogen/parasite, Predator-prey, Host-
parasitoid)
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1 Adaptation, fitnes s and phenotypic plasticity 6.10.
2 Abundance and cycles 20.10.
3 r- and K- s election 20.10.
4 Geographic variability, temperature and climatic changes 27.10.
5 Management of endangered and invasive species 27.10.
6 Movement in space and migration 3.11.
7 Intraspecific competition 3.11.
8 Cooperation and Allee efect 10.11.
9 Interspecific competition and the competitive exclusion principle 10.11.
10 Niche and coexistence 24.11.
11 Amens alis m, comensalism and mutualis m 24.11.
12 Character dis placement and competitive release 1.12.
13 Defence agains t predators 1.12.
14 Herbivores/parasites and defence of plants/hos ts 8.12.
15 Regulation of pests and harves ting 8.12.
1. Life-table analysis
2. Intraspecific competition
3. Exponential population growth
4. Interspecific competition
5. Functional response
6. Trophic niche
7. Temperature
8. Spatial distribution
9. Mark capture-recapture
1. Install R (http://www.r-project.org/)
2. Download packages: deSolve, rootSolve
3. Install Populus 5.4 (http://www.cbs.umn.edu/populus)
4. Read chapter 2 of MABD 1 (Library)