Syllabus
1. Introduction to paleoecology, definitions and principle methods
2. Biosystems and environments
3. Adaptability of organisms to the environments
4. Records of the organism activity
5. Populations
6. Biocenoses
7. Trophic relationships in geological history
8. Marine ecosystems
9. Terrestrial ecosystems
10. Taphonomy
11. Evolution of global ecosystem
12. Paleoecology of selected sedimentary sequences of the Czech Republic
13. Paleoecological reconstructions
Annotation
The goal of lectures in palaeoecology is the understanding of basic principles of both biotic and abiotic factors for the marine and land biocycles in the geologic history (betwen Precambrian to Recent). Taphonomic impacts will be discussed in connection with the actuopalaeontologic, ecostratigraphic, palaeoclimatostratigraphic and eventostratigrafic events and principles.
Different life strategies will be analysed in individual environments of the marine and freshwater ecosystems within the global biomes of the World.