Stano Pekár“Populační ekologie živočichů“
 dN
= Nr
dt
• Population ecology (Resources, Conditions, Models)
• Population growth (Population censuses)
• Population structure (Stage/Age life-tables, k-factor analysis)
• Temperature models (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, Prey-predator, Hostparasitoid,
Plant-herbivore)
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No. Topics Date
1.
2.
Adaptation, fitness, phenotypic plasticity, r/K selection
Abundance and cycles
27.9.
3. Geographic variability (temperature, physiological time) 4.10.
4. Intraspecific competition, Cooperation, Allee effect 11.10.
5. Management of endangered species, Regulation of pests 18.10.
6. Dispersal, movement, dormancy, navigation, and migration 25.10.
7. Interspecific competition, competitive exclusion principle, apparent
competition
1.11.
8. Niche and coexistence (storage effect, heteromyopy, resource partitioning) 8.11.
9. Amensalism, comensalism, mutualism 15.11.
10. Defence against predators (crypsis, mimicry) 22.11.
11. True predators, parasitoids, and host manipulation 29.11.
12. Herbivores, Parasites and pathogens 6.12.
1. Functional response – in the laboratory
2. Demography – in the laboratory
3. Population dynamics – in the laboratory
4. Spatial distribution – in the field
Study chapters 1 & 2 and the
description of a selected project
Pekár S. & Kintrová K. 2013. Populační
ekologie živočichů v příkladech. MU Brno.