ZA213 Response of freshwater ecosystems to climate change

Přírodovědecká fakulta
jaro 2025
Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D.
Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Geografický ústav – Sekce věd o Zemi – Přírodovědecká fakulta
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course provides information on climate effects on freshwater ecosystems in terms of interactions with anthropogenic pressures and ecological impacts. The purpose of the course is to present dominant topics relevant to individual types of freshwater ecosystems in relation to the potential effects of climate change. The main methodological approaches, two case studies and a number of references to research results will support a theoretical overview of the issue.
Výstupy z učení
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able:
- to link variability of freshwater ecosystems over various time scales;
- to understand climate impacts on different types of freshwater system (running and stagnant waters, wetlands);
- to analyse the structural and process-based characteristics of aquatic ecosystems and their links to global change;
- to describe the relationship between climate change and anthropogenic pressures;
- to understand ecological context of climate change at the level of processes, communities and indicator characteristics;
- to identify the role of adaptation strategies in the context of the current landscape and its dynamics;
- to obtain an overview of analytical methods for assessing changes in the freshwater environment and ecological responses;
- to discuss presented case studies using obtained knowledge
Osnova
  • 1. Variability of freshwater ecosystems
  • 2. Rivers – hydrological and morphological patterns
  • 3. Lakes, pools and other stagnant waters – temporal dynamics, role in landscape
  • 4. Wetlands - biogeochemistry
  • 5. Hydromorphology and riparian zone
  • 6. Thermal regime, water chemistry
  • 7. Ecological processes – primary production, decomposition
  • 8. Biological communities – distribution, food webs, phenology, invasions
  • 9. Ecological indicators, multiple stressors
  • 10. Paleolimnological reconstructions and other methods
  • 11. Management and adaptation strategies, restorations
  • 12. Case study: Land-water interactions, multiple-scale relationships in catchments
  • 13. Case study: Chironomidae as model group indicating environmental changes
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • Dubois, N., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Mills, K., Gell, P., Battarbee, R., Bennion, H., ...Flower, R. (2018). First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world. Anthropocene Review, 5 (1), 28-68.
  • O'Briain R. (2019). Climate Change and European rivers: An eco‐hydromorphological perspective. Ecohydrology 12(5), e2099.
  • Climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Edited by M. R. Kernan - R. W. Battarbee - Brian Moss. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, xiii, 314. ISBN 9781405179133. info
    neurčeno
  • RHOADS, Bruce L. River dynamics : geomorphology to support management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, x, 515. ISBN 9781107195424. info
  • Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams : ecology and management. Edited by Thibault Datry - Núria Bonada - Andrew J. Boulton. London: Academic Press, 2017, xxiii, 597. ISBN 9780128038352. info
  • REDDY, K. R. a R. D. DELAUNE. Biogeochemistry of wetlands : science and applications. Boca Raton, Fla.: Taylor & Francis, 2008, xxiii, 774. ISBN 9781566706780. info
  • River futures : an integrative scientific approach to river repair. Edited by Gary J. Brierley - Kirstie A. Fryirs. Washington, DC: Society for Ecological Restoration International, 2008, xvii, 304. ISBN 9781597261135. info
  • Ecology of glacial flood plain. Edited by James V. Ward - Urs Uehlinger. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, xvii, 306. ISBN 9781402017926. info
  • WETZEL, Robert G. Limnology : lake and river ecosystems. 3rd ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001, xvi, 1006. ISBN 0127447601. info
  • MOSS, Brian. Ecology of fresh waters : man and medium, past to future. 3rd ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 1998, xvi, 557. ISBN 0632035129. info
  • The Chironomidae : biology and ecology of non-biting midges. Edited by Patrick D. Armitage - Peter S. Cranston - L. Clive V. Pinder. 1st ed. London: Chapman & Hall, 1995, 572 s. ISBN 0-412-45260-X. info
  • KNIGHTON, David. Fluvial forms and processes. London: Edward Arnold, 1984, 224 s. ISBN 0-7131-6405-0. info
Výukové metody
lectures, class discussion
Metody hodnocení
Examination has an oral form.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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