Content (Syllabus outline)
Basic components of environment: soil as a natural source for growth and development of plants and other organisms; air as a substrate for transport of substances and energy, needed for the development of ecosystems; water, its properties and its cycling in nature.
Organisms in environment: types and properties of organisms, classification of organisms according to energy sources, life cycles and structure, interactions of organisms with environment and influence of environment on them.
Functioning of ecosystems, cycles of matter and energy in ecosystems, typology of ecosystems and specifics of agroecosystems (artificial ecosystems and their sustainability).
Biodiversity, evaluation of biodiversity and its role in ecosystems; habitat types, their identification and classification, methods of habitat mapping, indicator species; specific plant communities in different agricultural land uses and their identification.
Types and manners of environment degradation: recoverable and unrecoverable degradation local and dispersed pollution, biotechnical and nonbiotechnical (industrial, urban) pollution, dangerous organic and inorganic compounds in soil-plant system.
Measures for diminishing of negative influences of agricultural techniques and evaluation of effects of new agro technical methods on environmental pollution.
Sustainable use of natural resources and environment husbandry in the frames of national and EU legislation.
Prerequisites
Conditions for inclusion in the work:
- enrolment in the appropriate academic year.
Conditions for performing study obligations:
- prerequisites for the exam are finished and submitted report of experimental project, and presentation of the seminar paper.