Protection and Restoration of Water Environments 1400-215ORSW

1. Water in a changing world
2. Human impacts on aquatic environments
2.1 Exploatation of the living resources
2.2 Species diversity and alien species
2.3 Technical modification of freshwater habitats
2.4 Pollution
2.4.1 Eutrophication (causes and examples, microbial loop, algae and cyanobacteria, problems to be solved)
2.4.2 Toxic pollution
2.4.3 Acidification
2.4.4 Thermal pollution
3. The biological assessment of water quality
3.1 Running waters
3.2 Lakes and reservoirs
4. Management of water resources
4.1 Biological, chemical and physical methods of protection and restoration of
freshwater habitats
4.2 Water Framework Directive
1. Natural and altered freshwater habitats - Department of Environmental Botany
2. Eutrophication
2.1 Microbial indicators of eutrophication - Microbial Ecology Department
2.2 Internal load: microorganisms and invertebrates and phosphorus release from lake sediment - Department of Hydrobiology
3. Protection of freshwaters
2.1 Constructed wetlands - Department of Hydrobiology
2.2 Watershed and trophic state of lakes - Department of Hydrobiology
2.3 Restoration of lakes : top-down and bottom-up techniques - Department of Hydrobiology