Course: Landscape Ecology and Protection

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Course title Landscape Ecology and Protection
Course code KAE/KEPK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Nedbal Václav, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Křováková Kateřina, Ing.
Course content
- Concepts of landscape ecology Concepts of landscape ecology. Ecology, population, community, topos, ecotope, biotope, ecosystem. Ecological valence, niche, disturbance, succession and climax. Landscape and its definition. Definition, meaning and importance of landscape ecology. - Landscape factors Abiotic factors involved in landscape formation - endogenous (tectonics, volcanism, sedimentation, erosion, cryogenic processes). Abiotic factors involved in landscape formation - exogenous (solar radiation, precipitation, wind, climate). Biotic factors involved in landscape formation (vegetation growth, biomass production, pedogenesis, sediment deposition). - Landscape formation Terrestrial landscape structures, height division and its influence on vegetation gradation, relief, slope, landscape geomorphology, convex, concave and other landscape shapes. Concept of biomes, zonal, azonal and extrazonal biomes, basic categories of planetary biomes. Hydric landscape structures, the concept of river basins. Flowing and standing surface waters, division of their internal environment and revitalization of organisms, basic conditions of water environment. Transient forms of terrestrial and hydric landscape structures - wetlands. - Landscape structure and stability Landscape structure theory. Landscape components and elements. Landscape areas and landscape corridors, their structure, division and development, ecotones. Landscape matrix and its structure, porosity, connectivity, heterogeneity, contrast and graininess. Landscape metrics - indicators of landscape structure. Landscape stability, principles and types. Homeostasis and homeorhesis, resistance and resilience. - Landscape development The development of the landscape of our territory from ancient times to the present day. Environment, geological and geomorphological development in prehistoric periods. Pleistocene glacial cycles and their influence on the geomorphology and character of our territory. Holocene climate and its influence on the distribution of current vegetation. Cultural development of human civilization and its influence on our landscape in the prehistoric period, the development of agricultural activity. Development of the structure of the agricultural landscape and settlements. Human influence on our landscape from the Middle Ages to the modern age and the present, deforestation, buildings in the landscape, its exploitation and acceleration of change. - Biogeography of the Czech landscape Height division of the Czech landscape. Vegetation stages and their diagnostic woody plants. Extension of vegetation stages in our territory and their current state. Biogeography of the territory of the Czech Republic, spatial levels of landscape division. Categories of individual landscape division, biogeographical provinces, subprovinces and bioregions. Categories of typological division of landscape, biochores and groups of types of geobiocenes. - ÚSES Ecologically important segments of the landscape and the skeleton of ecological stability, the principles of more stable and less stable parts of the landscape. Territorial ecological stability systems (ÚSES) and their importance. Composition elements of ÚSES, biocentres, biocorridors, interaction elements and protection zones, principles of their creation, their meaning, composition and properties. - Landscape character Definition of landscape character and explanation of its meaning. Semantic mediation of landscape values, the relationship of the character of the landscape to the natural conditions of the territory and to human activity, the scale of the landscape. Evaluation of landscape character, natural landscape, partially and completely altered by man. Landscapes with preserved, average and reduced value of landscape character. Human influence on the landscape. Landscape protection and nature park. - Water in landscape Impact of water in landscape on energy and material fluxes. - Biogeochemical cycles

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), E-learning, Individual preparation for exam, Excursion, Work with multi-media resources (texts, internet, IT technologies)
  • Class attendance - 52 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 50 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic issues of landscape ecology, ie the relationships between living and non-living components of the landscape, including human influence. The course introduces the natural formation and structure of the terrestrial and hydric components of the landscape and describes the functions of selected components on examples. It also includes the topic of the development of the landscape by natural processes and its influence on human activities from ancient times to the present day. In addition to the theory of landscape structure and functional stability of the landscape, the issue of landscape character as an expression of cultural aesthetic principles of human behavior in the landscape environment is also discussed. In connection with this, the principles of creating territorial systems of ecological stability are presented as a practical expression of care for the landscape and stabilization of its environment. An integral part of the course is also the role of water in energy and material fluxes in the landscape.
Understanding the functioning of the landscape as a complex structure of inanimate and living components of the environment, including humans, that interact with each other. The ability to work in the landscape to respect the preserved natural and cultural landscape environment and activities in the landscape not to reduce its stability, but on the contrary to develop it.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of biology and ecology, especially basic ecological knowledge about individuals, populations and communities and the principles of ecosystem formation.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Test

The student must meet the requirements of an overview of basic knowledge in the field of landscape ecology. Furthermore, the student must demonstrate the ability to think and explain the issues of individual topics of landscape ecology. Credit requirements: Credit test. Exam requirements: Oral exam.
Recommended literature
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