Course: Landscape, biodiversity and climate

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Course title Landscape, biodiversity and climate
Course code KZP/1LBAC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 15
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hejcman Michal, prof. doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Lehejček Jiří, Mgr. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Ecosystems, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services. 2. Biodiversity, methods of estimating its state, biodiversity indices. 3. Types of diversity; diversity of organisms and landscapes at different spatial levels; the role of biodiversity in the fulfillment of basic ecosystem functions (production, evapotranspiration, water theory) in the landscape. 4. Fragmentation and landscaping as the main current causes of permanent biodiversity loss; possibilities of revitalization of biodiversity in natural, close to nature and unnatural habitats. 5. Climate, climate, weather, variability, changes, trends, global and local factors affecting climate. 6. Prediction of changes in land use and threats to biodiversity and fulfillment of basic ecosystem functions in conditions of climate change using modeling. 7. Possibilities of increasing the ecological stability of the cultural landscape and revitalization of anthropogenically formed segments of the landscape (leaving to spontaneous development, controlled succession, reclamation) and their impact on biodiversity. 8. Indicators of the effectiveness of revitalization measures in terms of biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services. 9. Recommendations for landscape planning to support biodiversity from the point of view of precaution. 10. Case studies (global, local).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • GARDNER, Robert H., Robert V. O'NEILL a Monica Goigel TURNER. Landscape ecology in theory and practice: pattern and process. New York: Springer, 2001. ISBN 0-387-95123-7.
  • GILLSON, Lindsey. Biodiversity conservation and environmental change: using palaeoecology to manage dynamic landscapes in the Anthropocene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-871304-3.
  • LÖW, J. a kol. Rukověť projektanta místního územního systému ekologické stability. Brno: MZP, 1988.
  • PERROW, M. R., DAVY, A. J. (eds.). Handbook of ecological restoration. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.
  • PRIMACK, R. B., KINDLMANN P., JERSÁKOVÁ J. Úvod do biologie ochrany přírody. Praha: Portál, 2011.
  • SKLENIČKA, P. Základy krajinného plánování. Praha: Vydavatelství Naděžda Skleničková, 2003.
  • VAN ANDEL, J., ARONSON, J. Restoration Ecology: The new frontiers. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012.


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