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Ecology of amphibians and reptiles

Class at Faculty of Science |
MB170P116

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1) Vliv vnějších faktorů a fysiologie obojživelníků 2) Reprodukční systémy ocasatých obojživelníků 3) Reprodukční systémy žab 4) Termální biologie plazů 6) Radiace anolisů jako příklad adaptivní evoluce a metod jejího studia 7) Ekologie a evoluce velkých plazů (příklady: varani, leguáni, želvy) 8) Ekologie plazů na ostrovech (příklady: Gallotia) 9) Evoluce life histories, viviparie a parthenogenese 10) Potravní ekologie a fysiologie hadů (příklady: hroznýšovití a krajty) 11) Adaptace plazů na vodní prostředí (příklad: mořští hadi) 12) Reprodukční biologie hadů

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Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 3 students.

External factors: adaptation to water shortage in frogs and toads; thermal biology of reptiles; population ecology: reproductive strategies in frogs and toads; population regulation in giant turtles; invasions; evolutionary ecology: life history strategies, clutch size, egg incubation; Dollo principle and evolution of viviparity; legless lizards and evolution of locomotion; coloration and predation pressure in snakes; behavioural ecology: mating and spacing systems, evolution of territoriality in lizards, male combat and its consequences in snakes and lizards; foraging and feeding strategies in snakes and turtles; antipredatory behaviour in newts; community ecology: lizard communities in deserts; speciation and extinctions on islands:

Caribbean amphibians and reptiles; rapid evolution of lizards on Canary Islands; ecomorphs of anoles and their evolution.

Heatwole H., Sullivan B. K. (1995): Amphibian biology, vol. 2: Social behaviour.

Laurie J. Vitt and Eric R. Pianka (1994): Lizard Ecology: Historical and

Experimental Perspectives. Princeton Univ. Press

Pough, Harvey F. et al. (1997): Herpetology. Prentice Hall