502 ECOLOGY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS
| Category: Mandatory Class Hours: 4 Laboratory Hours: 0 ECTS: 6 |
Course Type: Scientific Area Prerequisite Courses: Language of Teaching and Exams: Greek Is the course offered to ERASMUS students: Yes (in English) |
Course Curriculum:
- Introduction – Ecology, Evolution and Scientific Method
- Adaptations to barren, water and changing environments
- Climate and Global Megacommunities Development
- Evolution
- Life cycles, Reproduction, Social behaviors
- Population distributions
- Populations – size, growth, population dynamics with and without self-regulation
- Population dynamics in space and time
- Population interactions (competition, predation, mutualism)
- Biocommunities and Ecosystems – Changes of communities in space and time
- Biogeochemical Cycles, Energy Flow and Productivity
- Patterns of species diversity
- Conservation Ecology (Cases of population explosions, Small populations, Endangered species and populations)
- Preservation of Populations and Species (Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats as well as wild fauna and flora and Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Union on the quality of aquatic ecosystems)
Literature:
1. R. Relyea, R. Roberts, Οικολογία – Η Οικονομία της φύσης, Εκδόσεις Broken Hill Publishers Ltd, 2019, Κωδικός Εύδοξου: 86053275
2. M.C. Molles, A.A. Sher, Οικολογία, Εκδόσεις Broken Hill Publishers Ltd, 2021, Κωδικός Εύδοξου: 94643696
3. G. Stamou "Ecology - Introduction to population ecology", Ziti Pelagia Publications, 2009, Eudoxus Code: 11315
