Ecological Basis for Nature Protection 1400-215EPOP
Environmental crisis: symptoms and causes. Ecology and demography of human population. Environmental capacity. Ecological indices of environmental state. Monitoring. The role of human population - from the early beginnings till now. Anthropopressure as a factor of selection. Limits of tolerance, adaptations to human environment. Synantropy and synurbisation. Introductions and invasions of alien species. Biological diversity (from genes through species to ecosystems). Geographical patterns in global distribution of biodiversity. Methods of estimating biodiversity. Foundations of modern taxonomy. Speciation and extinction. Evolutionary changes in biological diversity. Causes of extinctions, the scale of nowadays extinction. Trophic structure of communities. Keystone species, redundancy, stability and resistance to disturbances. Applying ecological principles in the sustainable exploitation of resources. Rare and endangered species. Habitat fragmentation and metapopulation concept. Theor
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Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Final exam (test)
Bibliography
Mackenzie A, Ball A. S. i S. R. Virdee 2000. Krótkie wykłady. Ekologia. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN
Mannion A. M. 2001. Zmiany środowiska Ziemi. Historia środowiska
przyrodniczego i kulturowego. Wydawnictwo naukowe PWN.
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naukowe PWN.
Symonides E. 2008. Ochrona przyrody. Wydawnictwa UW
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Raport "Stan środowiska w Polsce". 2004. Inspekcja Ochrony Środowiska (+ CD)
http://www.gios.gov.pl
CD-ROMy: Ochrona polskiej przyrody; Różnorodność biologiczna w Polsce
Wybrane artykuły z Nature, Conservation Biology, Ecology Letters, Journal of Vegetation Science, Restoration Ecology.
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