1. Ecology as a discipline, areas of interest in ecology, descriptive and functional ecology. 2. Individual and environment - biotic conditions, resources, abiotic environmental conditions (solar radiation, heat, atmosphere, water and soil), gradients of environmental conditions, ecological valence, habitat, niche, environmental adaptation. 3. Relationships between organisms - types of relationships (positive, negative, neutral), intraspecific and interspecific relationships, Tilman model. 4. Population ecology - population characteristics, population changes over time (survival function, growth pattern), age structure. 5. Populations in space and time - distribution of populations in space, metapopulations, core and satellite species, source and sink sites, emergence and demise of populations and species. 6. Community ecology - community definition, descriptive (species composition, age and spatial structure, etc.) and functional characteristics (mechanisms of species coexistence, ecological stability, etc.). 7. Evolution of communities - primary and secondary succession, climax, trade-off principle, life strategies (r-strategists, K-strategists, S-strategists, R-strategists and C-strategists), species diversity, dominants, keystone species. 8. Ecosystem ecology - characteristics, energy flow and cycling of substances in the ecosystem, food relationships, trophic levels (producer, consumer and destroyer), food webs of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their differences, primary and secondary production. 9. Food resources - limiting elements, Liebig's law of minimum, nutrient uptake models, ecological stoichiometry. 10. Biogeochemical cycles of major elements (C, N, P) and substances (water) in ecosystems. Basic concepts (reservoir, flux, input, output, residence time, nutrient cycling), bottom-up and top-down approach. 11. Biomes of the world - basic divisions, vegetation zones and stages. 12. Biomes of the Czech Republic - basic division, vegetation zones and stages. 13. Biosphere and man - human impact on ecosystems, energy, raw materials, food, disturbance of natural ecosystems. 14. Landscape ecology - components, elements and structure of landscape, changes in cultural landscape.
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Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Written assignment presentation and defence, Lecture, Practicum
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- Graduate study programme term essay
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