Biogeography of Soil Animals. Main Trends in Macroecology and Distribution of Soil Invertebrates

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Course ID:	WF-OB-GONGALSKY2
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Biogeography of Soil Animals. Main Trends in Macroecology and Distribution of Soil Invertebrates
Name in Polish:	Biogeography of Soil Animals. Main Trends in Macroecology and Distribution of Soil Invertebrates
Organizational unit:	Center for Ecology and Ecophilosophy
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ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	OB2_W02 OB2_W09 OB2_W12 OB2_U01 OB2_U09
Short description:	The introduction to the distribution of soil organisms in zonal soil types and their adaptation to environmental conditions. Basic concepts and paradigms of modern soil zoology and biogeography, including detrital food webs, spectra of life forms and food groups, modularity of soil ecosystems, etc. The spatio-temporal patterns of distributio and functioning of soil communities at different levels of resolution and coverage of research.
Full description:	Course content: 1. Fundamentals and history of soil biogeography. 2. Features of soil ecosystems as an environment. 3. Edaphic factors of the distribution of soil organisms. 4. Methods in soil biogeography 5. Zoological methods of soil diagnostics. 6. Spatial heterogeneity of soil ecosystems. 7. Peculiarities of soil biogeography and distribution of soil organisms.
Bibliography:	Decaens T. 2010. Macroecological patterns in soil communities. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. V. 19. P. 287-302. Lavelle P., Spain A.V., 2001. Soil ecology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publ. 654 pp.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Knowledge on the distribution of soil organisms in zonal soil types and their adaptation to environmental conditions
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Methods of knowledge verification Tests

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