Basics of landscape ecology

Course: Soil Science, Land Management and Territorial Planning

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Basics of landscape ecology
Code
ОК 18
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
4 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
P04. Use information technologies, cartographic and geo-informational models in the field of Earth sciences, in particular in soil science. P08. Justify choices and use field and laboratory methods to analyze natural and anthropogenic systems and objects. P11. Organize and summarize the materials of field and laboratory research. P13. Be able to communicate the results of activities to a professional audience and the general public, make presentations and messages.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Successful mastering of the disciplines "Biogeography", "Geomorphology", "Cartography". 2. To be able to establish the nature of relationships between the causes, consequences and ways of solving landscape ecological problems. 3. To be able to analyze the negative consequences of unregulated human economic activity from the standpoint of a landscape-ecological approach to nature protection problems. 4. To know the main theoretical provisions of modern landscape ecology, the history of the formation of this science, its structure and regularities of the functioning of the natural environment. 5. To know modern quantitative and qualitative methods of landscape ecological studies, the methodology of studies of natural and transformed landscapes, determination of purity standards of components of the natural environment, organization of geoecological monitoring, etc.
Course content
This educational discipline is devoted to the study of general landscape-ecological problems and the peculiarities of the functioning of landscape ecosystems that are affected by economic and other human activities, the causes of their occurrence, the principles and modern methods used to solve them, as well as the formation of skills and abilities to solve the main landscape-ecological problems in plane of the subject area of ​​knowledge of natural geography. The discipline "Fundamentals of Geoecology" is aimed at deepening theoretical landscape ecological knowledge, forming special professional, social and personal competencies in students, accumulating knowledge about the possibility of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, the ability to search, process and analyze information from various sources.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1 . Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: Підручник. – К.: Знання, 2013. - 424 с.2. Гродзинський М.Д. Пізнання ландшафту: місце і простір / У 2-х т. – Київ, 2005. – Т.1. - 431 с., Т.2 - 503 с. 3. Гродзинський М.Д. Ландшафтна екологія: підручник. Київ : Знання, 2014. 550 с. 4. Джигирей В.С. Екологія та охорона навколишнього природного середовища: навч. посіб. 4-те вид., випр. і доп. Київ : Знання, 2006. 319 с. 5. Круглов І.С. Трансдисциплінарна геоекологія - Львів: ЛНУ ім І Франка, 2020. - 292 с. 6. Добровольський В.В. Екологічні знання: навч. посіб. Київ : ВД «Професіонал», 2005. 304 с. 7. Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П., Муніч Н.В. Геоекологія: теоретичні та практичні аспекти: монографія. Київ : Альтерпрес, 2014. 468 с. 8. Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П. Геоекологія: Термінологічно-тлумачний словник. Київ : ПП «ДІРЕКТ ЛАЙН», 2016. 412 с. 9. Шищенко П.Г., Гавриленко О.П. Геоекологія України: підручник. Київ : ДП «Прінт Сервіс», 2017. 494 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, practical session, analytical work
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral survey, blitz survey, tests, presentations, discourse
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Petrivna Havrylenko
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
heohrafichnyi fakultet

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology
heohrafichnyi fakultet