Community Ecology - MB162QM02

• Title: Community Ecology
• Czech title: Ekologie společenstev
• Guaranteed by: Department of Ecology (31-162)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:10/5, Ex [DS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Explanation: Subject of the 2nd semester of QuBiD
• Guarantor: Associate Professor Carlo Polidori, Ph.D.

Annotation

The course engages students in learning activities aimed at building in-depth knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts and expertise in plant ecology with respect to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning relationships. Students will familiarize with key ecological patterns, processes, and applications involving plants at individual, population, community, and ecosystem scale. A major goal of the course is to expand students' quantitative skills and professional expertise in designing and analysing biodiversity experiments. Students will first assess information from media and literature and will practice interpreting results and communicating findings to different audiences. Then, students will learn how to pose questions, formulate testable hypotheses, and design biodiversity experiments. They will conduct their own original scientific research projects by implementing and setting up a biodiversity experiment in the field, collecting and analyzing the data, presenting the results, and writing a scientific article.

Course coordinator: Prof. Dr. Gianalberto Losapio

Last update: Gáliková Kristýna, Mgr. et Mgr., DiS. (21.11.2025)