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Geobiology II. - MG420P03
Title: Geobiologie II.
Czech title: Geobiologie II.
Guaranteed by: Institute of Geology and Paleontology (31-420)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/1, C+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: doc. RNDr. Petr Kraft, CSc.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Petr Kraft, CSc.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Kraft, CSc. (18.05.2012)
Second part of the introduction to geobiology; it continues to explain differences between recent and fossil ecosystems, proxies for recontruction of fossil ecosystems; evolutionary aspects, events.
Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Kraft, CSc. (18.05.2012)

Cockell, Ch.(Ed.) 2007: An Introduction to the Earth-Life system. Cambridge Univ. Press

Briggs, D.E.G., Crowther, P.R. (eds.), 2003: Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Publishing, 583 str.

Stanley S. M., 1989: Earth and life through time. W. H. Freeman and comp., New York, 690 pp.

Taylor, P. D., 2004: Extinctions in the History of Life. Cambridge University Press, 191 str.

Clarkson, E.N.K.1998: Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. Blackwell Science.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Kraft, CSc. (18.05.2012)

Requirements to credit are presence at practices and write of seminar work.

Examination is oral with accent on multidisciplinary interconnections and understanding to processes.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Kraft, CSc. (18.05.2012)

Thirteen lectures, each in duration of 3 lessons:

1. Evolution of atmosphere, hydrosphere and pedosphere (2 lectures)

2. Biogeochemical cycles and their evolutions

3. Early history of life

4. Late Proterozoic and Phanerozoic evolution of life

5. Evolution of ecosystems influenced by human (early stages)

6. Biodiversity evolution in geological past

7. Events in evolution of ecosystems

Definition and classification of events, and their causes

Sudden events: causes, effects and examples

Climatic changes

Structure of mass extinctions

Practice is composed of four seminaries, each in duration of 3 lessons: discussions about key publicaitons on evolution of ecosystems

 
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