Course: Subterranean Habitats

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Course title Subterranean Habitats
Course code KZP/3SUHA
Organizational form of instruction Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
Taking about caves to people who have never visited one is difficult. Cave ecosystems or other underground are common part of our nature, but environmental conditions, especially absence of light make this environment extreme not for man only but for many other organisms. Course covering definition and classification of caves and organisms occupied this ecosystem. To be possible specified caves as unique ecosystem also basic information of other important underground ecosystems (e.g. debris stones, artificial mining galleries) will be given. Within framework of course caves, artificial mining galleries and debris stones will be visited and examples of cave investigation methods will be given. Course will be oriented to the Czechia condition.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • HOLEC M., POKORNÝ R. Subterranean Habitats.. Ústí nad Labem: Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, 2012.
  • POKORNÝ R., HOLEC M. Jeskyně Ústeckého kraje. Nekrasové podzemní objekty ve třetihorních vulkanitech, jejich původ, charakteristiky a biota. 276 s.. Praha: Nakladatelství XYZ s.r.o, 2009.
  • POKORNÝ R., ZEMÁNKOVÁ T., LORENC M., ZAGOŻDŻON P. Caves in the Orlické hory and Góry Bystrzyckie Mountains. 136 s.. Ústí nad Labem: Univerzita J. E. Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, 2013.


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