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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM

for academic year 2024/2025
JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM

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Course: Subterranean Habitats

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Course title	Subterranean Habitats
Course code	KZP/0CAEC
Organizational form of instruction	Lesson + Seminary
Level of course	unspecified
Year of study	not specified
Semester	Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits	6
Language of instruction	English
Status of course	unspecified
Form of instruction	unspecified
Work placements	unspecified
Recommended optional programme components	None
Course availability	The course is available to visiting students

Lecturer(s)
Holec Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. week (1st. block) Introductions about classification of underground environment - position of caves among other stony environment; cave geology, cave sedimentology, microclimatology and biology 2.-4. week (2nd-4th block) Field excursions complemented with field examples of terrain investigation of stony, especially cave, ecosystems in the region of northern Bohemia
Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Recommended literature
CULVER C.C., WHITE B.W. (2005). Encyclopedia of Caves. 655 pp.. HOLEC M., POKORNÝ R. (2012). Subterranean Habitats. Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, 80 pp. Ústí nad Labem.. OTVOS E. G. (1976). Pseudokarst and pseudokarst terrains: Problems of terminology. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 87, 1021-1027.. PALMER A. N. (2007). Cave geology. Cave Books, 454 pp. Dayton, Ohio. POKORNÝ R., HOLEC M. (2009). Jeskyně Ústeckého kraje. Nekrasové podzemní objekty ve třetihorních vulkanitech, jejich původ, charakteristiky a biota. Nakladatelství XYZ s.r.o., 276 pp. Praha. POKORNÝ R., ZEMÁNKOVÁ T., LORENC M., ZAGOŻDŻON P. (2013). Caves in the Orlické hory and Góry Bystrzyckie Mountains. Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, 136 pp. Ústí nad Labem.. PŘIBYL J., LOŽEK V., KUČERA B. et al. (1992). Základy karsologie a speleologie. Academia, 355 pp. Praha.. RŮŽIČKA V. (1993). Stony debris ecosystems-sources of landscape diversity. Ekológia, 12, 3: 291-298, Bratislava.. VÍTEK J. (1980). Typy pseudokrasových jeskyní v Československu. Československý kras, 30, 17 - 28.. VÍTEK J. (1981). Morfometrická typizace pseudokrasu v Československu. Sborník ČSGS, 81, 3: 153 - 165..

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Faculty	Study plan (Version)	Category of Branch/Specialization	Recommended year of study	Recommended semester

JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.11.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2024/2025