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Department of Ecosystem Biology

Offered programmes

Ecology

This study programme is completely in English. More information here.

Biology of Ecosystems

This study programme falls in master study programme Biology. Biology of Ecosystems presents a modern programme inteconnecting classical biology with studying of ecosystems' level processes. We understand ecosystem as an area (i.e. forest, meadow or fishpond) where organisms live in mutual relationships as well as with interaction with abiotic environment. Therefore the study of ecosystems involves not only biological topics but at least basal knowledge of chemistry, biochemystry and other subjects about non-living components of nature. However, as the programe title suggests, we emphasize mostly on the biotic ecosystem components. We teach to name the respective ecosystem components, to seek causal dependencies and relationships between organisms and their environment and to understand undergoing within ecosystems.

This promgramme is primarily focused on Czech students and runs mainly in Czech.

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SoWaFUN - Fungal ecology at the soil-water interface

Funding provider: The Czech Science Foundation
Duration: 2023 - 2025

Project goals: 

The main objective is to determine the taxonomic and functional overlap between the soil and aquatic microbiomes at different model sites.

Project description: 

Understanding the processes associated with organic matter (OM) transformations at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is key to understanding the flow of energy and macro-elements (carbon and nitrogen) at the landscape scale. Fungi produce a wide range of extracellular enzymes and convert various forms of complex plant-derived OM, and are thus one of the main regulators of carbon balance. We suggest that, contrary to previously accepted paradigms, many fungi colonizing plant matter in terrestrial conditions remain important players in energy transfer to higher trophic levels in stagnant freshwater.
In order to reveal with sufficient resolution the complex interactions that accompany fungal lifestyles at the soil-water interface, we have assembled a team of collaborators with a multidisciplinary focus and will use a combination of modern molecular methods, advanced bioinformatic analyses, and state-of-the-art approaches in analytical chemistry to address some of the pressing knowledge gaps in the emerging field of microbial ecology.

Within the project we offer new interesting topics for Bachelor and Master theses. For more information:doc. Ing. Jiří Bárta. PhD. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Illustration figure: Bacteria stained by FISH on fungal hyphae in soil (Eickhorst and Tippkötter, 2008, Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40(7):1883-1891)

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