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Last update: VSACH (13.04.2005)
There are two one-day excursions to demonstrate basic freshwater ecosystems. Although there are no required prerequisites to accomplish this lecture, a knowledge of basic ecology is very welcome. |
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Last update: RNDr. Martin Černý, Ph.D. (29.10.2019)
1. Hydrobiologie. Lellák J. & Kubíček F. 1992. Univerzita Karlova, vydavatelství Karolinum, Praha, 258 p. |
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Last update: RNDr. Martin Černý, Ph.D. (29.10.2019)
oral exam and to attend at lest two (from 9-10 offered) one-day field excursions. |
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Last update: VSACH (13.04.2005)
1.General features of aquatic habitats (basics of aquatic chemistry and hydrodynamics) relevant to aquatic life, basic trophic and energetic structure of aquatic ecosystem
2. Freshwater limnetic ecosystems - deep stratified lakes: particular features, seasonality, ecology of lake organisms, PEG model, diurnal vertical migration, main lakes of the world.
3. Freshwater limnetic ecosystems - shallow permanent waterbodies (fishponds, oxbows, littoral habitats): typical organisms and features, seasonality and life strategies, productivity - fish cultivation, eutrophication
4. Freshwater limnetic ecosystems - small temporal ponds (alluvial periodic ponds, ephemeral habitats, puddles, thelmata): typical features and typical organisms, their life strategies (diapause, dispersion, metapopulation concept)
5. Freshwater limnetic ecosystems - marginal and extreme aquatic habitats (peat bogs, hot springs, caves and interstitial habitats, snow and ice): peculiarity of these habitats, typical organisms and their adaptations
6. Freshwater lotic habitats - streams (springs, brooks, rivers, reservoirs): River forming landscape concept, basic difference from standing waters (hydrology, river continuum concept), reservoirs. Main world rivers.
7. Freshwater lotic habitats - streams: organisms, adaptations to life in a stream, life strategies
8. Marine ecosystems - introduction to the marine environment (characteristics of seawater, seafloor features, marine habitats - main terms, comparison to the lake ecosystems)
9. Marine ecosystems - open ocean (main groups of marine planktonic organisms, primary production in marine plankton, seasonal dynamics of productivity in various latitudes, nekton in the epipelagic zone)
10. Marine ecosystems - coastal and shelf benthic ecosystems: rocky, sandy, and muddy bottom, intertidal, vertical zonation of the littoral zone
11. Marine ecosystems- specialized benthic and coastal ecosystems in tropical zone: coral reefs and mangroves (geographical distribution, structure and zonation, main organismal groups involved and their interactions)
12. Marine ecosystems - specific coastal ecosystems of the temperate zone: kelp forests, communities of European coasts, tide pools, estuaries, brackish and hypersaline waters
13. Marine ecosystems - deepwater communities (deepwater nekton and benthos, chemosynthesis-dependent communities: hydrothermal vents, hypersaline and hydrocarbon seeps) |