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Course: Mesozoic biology

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Course title Mesozoic biology
Course code KZO/111
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course In each academic year, in the winter semester.
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Říčan Oldřich, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The historical aspect in biology as a key factor. The great Permian extinction as the gateway to the Mesozoic; Main animal and plant groups that have been the foundation and dominated the Mesozoic ecosystems. The make-up and functioning of the ancient ecosystems, food pyramids. Evolution of the global ecosystem in the Mesozoic and contrasts to the Tetriary. Biogeography of the Mesozoic. Biomes of the Mesozoic. Evolution of flowering plants as a key point. Evolution of active flight, adaptations to live in water and other adaptive radiations. Extinctions, K/T extinction as a gateway to extant biology. In comparison with the course "Diversity and evolution of fossil vertebrates" the main focus in this course is given to interpretation of the functioning of the Mesozoic ecosystems and its comparisons with ecosystems more familiar to us, i.e. its not a zoological course devoted solely to the vertebrate faunas and their evolution and zoology.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course will familiarize students with biology of the Mesozoic era in comparisons with biology of the Tertiary and Quaternary epochs and will contrast these with the present reduced biodiversity following the large Quaternary extictions.

Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students will be examined oraly with a test in midterm. 70 % of correct answers are needed to pass the examination.
Recommended literature
  • Carole T. Gee (editor). 2010. Plants in Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems. Indiana University Press, 424 str..
  • CARROLL, R. L., Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995..
  • David M Unwin. 2005. The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. Pi Press, 347 str..
  • Gregory S. Paul. 2002. Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 472 str..
  • JARVIK, E., Basic Structure and Evolution of Vertebrates 2..
  • John Foster. 2020. Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press, 560 str..
  • KARDONG, K. V., Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque-Melbourne-Oxford, 1995..
  • Luis M. Chiappe and Lawrence M. Witmer (editors). 2002. Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 536 str.
  • Michael J. Everhart. 2017. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea. Indiana University Press, 460 str..
  • Nicholas Fraser and Douglas Henderson. 2006. Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic. Indiana University Press, 328 str..
  • Paul S. Martin. 2007. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America. University of California Press, 269 str..
  • Philip J. Currie (Editor). 2005. Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, 672 pages..
  • Prehistorie - Obrazový průvodce vývojem života na Zemi..
  • Roček, Z., 2002: Historie obratlovců. Academia, Praha, 512 str..
  • ROMER, A. S. a PARSONS, T. S., The Vertebrate Body. W. B. Sounders Company, Philadelphia-London-Toronto, 1977..
  • Ross D.E. MacPhee. 2019. End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals. W. W. Norton & Company, 236 str..
  • Stephen Jay Gould. 1998. Dějiny planety Země. Knižní klub, 256 str.ISBN: 80-85928-88-4..


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 02.05.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2023/2024