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Chiropterology - MB170P58
Title: Chiropterologie
Czech title: Chiropterologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Zoology (31-170)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
the course is taught as cyclical
Guarantor: RNDr. Radek Lučan, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course intends to provide detailed information on current advances in the research of bats – the second most
diverse mammalian order and one of the four groups of animals that had achieved the ability of powered flight.
Details concerning the history, biodiversity and biological specificities of chiropterans will be presented in order to
strengthen the knowledge of diversity of evolutionary dynamics and mechanisms of adaptive radiation and current
research methods.
Last update: Prokop Jakub, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (28.04.2011)
Literature -

Altringham J. D. 1996. Bats: Biology and Behaviour. Oxford Univesity Press.

Horáček I. 1985. Létající savci. Academia, Praha.

Kunz T. H., Fenton M. B. 2003. Bat Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Kunz T. H., Parsons S. 2009. Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats. John Hopkins University Press.

Neuweiler G. 2000. The biology of bats. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Last update: Peterková Jindřiška, Ing. (24.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Podmínkou pro úspěšné složení zkoušky je znalost látky v rozsahu přednášek.

Last update: Peterková Jindřiška, Ing. (16.04.2012)
Syllabus -

1. Animals and flight. Definition of Chiroptera and their origins. Oldest fossil record and basal radiation.

2. Bat diversity - an overview of evolutionary lineages (1-3).

3. Structural characteristics of bats. Diversity of basic adaptations.

4. Trophic specializations and feeding ecology of bats.

5. Energetics and ecophysiology.

6. Orientation and sensoric systems.

7. Social organisation and behavioral ecology.

8. Reproductive biology.

Last update: Prokop Jakub, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (28.04.2011)
 
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