Fieldtrip Fydrobiology Poland

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Field work, excursion.

Learning Outcomes

Students are to learn how to diagnose the inland waters independently (for example a lake or a river) taking into account their biological and physico-chemical parameters. What is more, students will also be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice (i.e. in nature resources management like restoration, water protection, biomanipulation) and they will learn how to present the results obtained during the field research orally and in writing.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Any alterations in the way the catchment basin is used, for instance caused by urbanization, the development of industry or agricultural intensification, lead to the deterioration of the quality of surface waters. Monitoring of water quality is, then, the basic method of controlling the water environment. In the diagnosis of the condition of water ecosystem the indices based on physicochemical and biological parameters (f. e. phytoplankton, periphyton, hydromacrophytes, benthic macroinvertebrates) will be used. In case of eutrophic lakes with permanent domination of cyanobacteria achieving and maintaining the satisfactory quality of waters is often associated with restoration. The evaluation of the water ecosystem affected by restoration will be made by students on the example of Lake Durowskie in the middle of the vegetation period. The following problem tasks for students were chosen: The evaluation of the ecological condition of the lake in connection with macrophyte-based indice.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Paulo Filipe Afonso de Sousa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 100.0%

Bibliography

Ciecierska H. 2008. Macrophyte-based indices of the ecological stateof lakes. Dissertations and Monographs 139, Wyd. UWM.

Schaumburg, J., Schmedtje, U., Schranz, Ch., Köpf, B., Schneider, S.,Stelzer, D., Hofmann, G., 2005.Instruction Protokol for the ecological Assessment of Lakes for Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive: Macrophytes and Phytobenthos.

Bavarian Water Management Agency. Munchen. 1–44.

Schiefele, S., Schreiner, C., 1991. The use of diatoms for monitoringnutrient enrichment, acidification and impact of salt in rivers inGermany and Austria.

Whitton, B.A., Rott, E., Friedrich, G. (red.):Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers. Institut fu#r Botanik. UniversitätInnsbruck. s. 103–110.

Schoenfelder, I., Gelbrecht, J., Schoenfelder, J, Steinberg, C.E.W.,2002. Relationships between littoral diatoms and their chemical environment in northeastern German lakes and rivers. J. Phycol. 38:66–82.

Wetzel R. G. 2001. Limnology. Lake and River Ecosystems. ThirdEdition.