Annotation
Introduction to landscape ecology, basic principles and approaches, terminology. Concept of landscape unit, landscape structure and heterogeneity.
Ecological stability of the landscape, the role of disturbances and feedbacks. Horizontal landscape structure - matrix, patches, corridors, networks.
Biodiversity in the landscape, factors of biodiversity. Landscape changes and developments, processes of landscape change, movement of species in the landscape.
Island biogeography. The development of the natural and cultural landscape on the territory of the Czech Republic.
Landscape classification and typology, Pan-European and Czech landscape types. Applied landscape ecology - principles and basic methods of landscape planning.
Planning ecological networks in the landscape, landscape forming programmes, landscape character assessment.