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Ecology of mammals - MB170P61
Title: Ekologie savců
Czech title: Ekologie savců
Guaranteed by: Department of Zoology (31-170)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2011
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Pavel Stopka, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. Mgr. Pavel Stopka, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Pavel Stopka, Ph.D. (06.10.2021)
Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 5 students. A general survey of ecological topics in mammal studies. Research methods and specificities of particular groups. Energetic budget, its components and
paterns of their optimization. Metabolic demands, trophic biology of mammals, patterns of reproduction, population dynamics, population cycles, aspects of community structure and phenetic packing.



Literature -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Pavel Stopka, Ph.D. (04.04.2012)

JL Hurst, RJ Beynon, SC Roberts TD Wyatt (editors) 2008: Chemical signals in vertebrates. Springer.

Feldhamer GA et al. 1998: Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity and Ecology. McGraw-Hill.

Flowerdew JR, 1987: Mammals: their reproductive biology and population ecology. Trafalgar Square.

Stoddart DM (ed.) 1979: Ecology of small mammals. Chapman and Hall.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: prof. Mgr. Pavel Stopka, Ph.D. (06.10.2021)

Přednáška probíhá prezenčně

 

Zkouška je ústní. 1. Esej na téma dohodnuté s přednášejícím. 2. Obhajoba eseje s dalšími širšími otázkami.

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Pavel Stopka, Ph.D. (04.04.2012)

1. Introduction to methods in current ecological research of mammals

2. Ecological factors

3. Optimal foraging models, Marginal value theorem

4. Adaptations to extreme environment

5. Sociobiologz of model mammalian species

6. Reproduction and mating systems

7. From reproduction to population biology

 
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