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Lecturer(s)
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Řehounková Klára, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Müllerová Anna, Mgr.
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Course content
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1) Aim of the field - elementary terms, types of restoration, restoration plan, restoration project, biological ideals vs. practical applications 2. (2) Restoration of selected disturbed sites (mainly sites disturbed by mining activities, traffic embankments and cuttings, military areas) - detailed presentation of case studies in the Czech Republic and comparison with the world 3. (3) Management of selected target species, groups, communities and habitats 4. (4) Legislative an socioeconomic aspects of restoration- legislative framework, decision-making processes, social and ecological sustainability of projects, costs and benefits of different restoration types (5) Presentations of students restoration proposals specified for given locality(restoration project, proposal of partial arrangements within the scope of collective restoration project ) Ecological restoration in practice: 3 all-day excursions (south Bohemia, prevailingly anthropogenically disturbed sites) and one half-day excursion (sedimentary basin). One of all-day excusions will be directed at locality chosen for practical restoration project proposal.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Individual preparation for exam, Excursion
- Preparation for exam
- 20 hours per semester
- Field trip
- 35 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 20 hours per semester
- Semestral paper
- 40 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for classes
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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To present concrete projects of ecological restoration in the Czech Republic and compare them with examples in the world, demonstate legislative and socioeconomic aspects of restoration and provide possibility to prepare own restoration proposal designed for locality selected for given year.
Students obtain overview on the present state of the restoration practice in post-industrial sites including practical experience with restoration project proposal.
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Prerequisites
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Recommended underlying course Restoration ecology I (KBO/420)
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Interview, Analysis of the qualification work
- students are obliged to visit excursions - project on ecological restoration (team work) - brief literature review focused on the topic of project - final presentation of project
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Recommended literature
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Jongepierová et al. (eds.) 2012. Ekologická obnova v České republice. AOPK ČR, 147 pp..
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Kirmer A. &Tischew S. 2006. Handbook near-natural re-vegetation of raw soil. Taubner Verlag Wiesbaden, 56 pp..
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Perrow M. R. & A. J. Davy (eds.) 2002. Handbook of Ecological Restoration. Volume 1: Principles of Restoration; Volume 2: Restoration in Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 618 pp..
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Řehounek J., Řehounková K. & Prach K. (eds.) 2010. Ekologická obnova území narušených těžbou nerostných surovin a průmyslovými deponiemi. Calla, 172pp..
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Scotton M., Kirmer A., Krautzer B. (eds.) 2012. Praktická příručka pro ekologickou obnovu travních porostů - ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, 128 pp..
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Tropek R. & Řehounek J. 2012: Bezobratlí postindustriálních stanovišť: význam, ochrana a mangement. Entomologický ústav AV ČR a Calla, České Budějovice, 147pp..
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