Ecohydrology 1900-3-EKH-HK-W
The lecture covers the following issues:
- How to increase the environment capacity at the age of antropocene.
- Paradigms of ecohydrology - dual regulation principle
- Hoe the catchment properties shape the rainfall-runoff response and solutes and sediments transport.
Methods of indicating disperse and point sources of the water pollution sources.
Theory of river continuum and main biotic factors in the river environment.
Problems of Sulejów reservoir eutrophication
Exercises consist of two parts. First is the description of used in Poland methodologies of lakes quality state and resistance using the pre-EU accession methods. In the second part, there is an estimated buffering potential of the selected oxbow lakes in Warsaw. It is discussed the improvement of buffering capacity of the shore zone by proper spatial management. The second part is prepared as PP presentation and discussed in the classroom. Fieldwork and presentation is prepared in 2 person groups.
Main fields of studies for MISMaP
geography
Type of course
Mode
Classroom
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
K_W02 student knows and understands complex relations between ecology and hydrology and man activity;
- description of the catchment properties and sediments with solutes transport;
- problem of surface water eutrophication and sources of nutrients;
- conflicts between different users of the shore zone of the lakes
- principles of spatial planning in the catchment.
K_U05 student's skills:
- how to prepare the diagnosis of the environment state and define the conflicts between natural processes and needs of the man.
- be able to explain the differences in the ecological state of waters classifications due to changes in methodology.
- have skills to prepare, perform the research and show the results
K_K05 has a motivation to start projects with the motivation to be responsible for a stae of the ecosystems and Earth.
Assessment criteria
Knowledge from the lectures is evaluated on the basis of essay (50%)
Practicals evaluation:
average from the second task (40%)
active participation in the exercises (10%)
presence at the exercises is obligatory. Only 2 justified absences are accepted. Material that was skipped by the absence needs to be covered by the student in agreement with a lecturer. Case of the more absences will be justified by KJD.
Practical placement
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Bibliography
Bajkiewicz-Grabowska E., 1987, Ocena naturalnej podatności jezior na degradację i roli zlewni w tym procesie. Wiad. Ekol., 33, 3, 279-289
Kajak Z., 2001, Hydrobiologia - Limnologia. Ekosystemy wód śródlądowych PWN Warszawa
Nowicka B., Nadolna A. , Bałandin M. ,2012, Shorezone Functionality Index – Lake Charzykowskie, Poland: Full Report for EULAKES Project Ref. Nr. 2CE243P3
Nowicka B., Bałandin M., Nadolna A., 2017, Sensitivity of a large flow-through lake to meteorological condition and anthropogenic stress (hydromorphological assessment). Geographia Polonica. vol. 90, iss. 4, pp. 401-415 doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.010
Siligardi M., Zennaro B., Nowicka B., Nadolna A., 2016, SFI – Metoda oceny funkcjonalności stref brzegowych jezior. Gospodarka Wodna 12; ISSN: 0017-2448 e-ISN 2449-9439; 410-417
-Soszka H., Kutyła S., 2015, Obserwacje hydromorfologiczne jezior. IOŚ-PIB, Warszawa
Soszka H., Pasztaleniec A., Koprowska K., Kolada A., Ochocka A., 2012, Wpływ przekształceń hydromorfologicznych jezior na zespoły organizmów wodnych –przegląd piśmiennictwa.Ochrona Środowiska i Zasobów Naturalnych. 51: 24-52
Zalewski M. (red.), 2002, Guidlines for the integrated management of the watershed. UNEP,
Zalewski M., Wagner-Lotkowska I., 2004, Integrated Wateeshed Management Ecohydrology @ Phytotechnology Manual, UNESCO, Paris.
Zalewski M. (red.) Ekohydrologia. PWN, Warszawa
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