1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Practicum	30
Seminar	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

COURSE CONTENT, LECTURES
1. Hydrologic cycle, water supply and use.
2. Human impact on water resources: pollution, reservoirs and dams, agriculture, fishery, sport and recreation.
3. Water pollution: types of pollutants.
4. Toxic substances and biological effects of toxins.
5. Bioindicators.
6. Effects of organic pollution on freshwater ecosystems.
7. Biological pollution.
8. Nuclear power plants and thermal pollution.
9. Hydromorphological degradation of streams.
10. Benthic invertebrates as water quality indicators.
11. General effects of eutrophication; zooplankton and phytoplankton.
12. EU Water framework directive.
13. Ecological status assessment.
14. Chemical status assessment.
15. Synthesis and repetition.

SEMINARS
Include written essay on proposed subjects and presentation.
New themes each term, examples are as follows:
1. Sewage and waste water treatment and methods.
2. Ecological engineering.
3. Eutrofication - causes and consequences.
4. Eutrophication - restoration methods and techniques.
5. Eutrophication - case studies (Butoniga, Ponikve).
6. Influence of dams on river ecosystem.
7. Stream restoration.
8. Ecologically acceptable flow; biological minimum.
9. Oil pollution.
10. Radioactive pollution of freshwater ecosystems.
11. Pesticide (DDT, PCB) pollution
12. Heavy metal pollution
13. Constructed wetlands
14. Integration of ecological aspects in flood protection measures
15. Water quality standards; Croatian legislation

PRACTICUM
1. Fieldwork - Črnomerec Stream; macrozoobenthos sampling at organically polluted sites and at referece site
2. Samples processing and analysis, macrozoobenthos determination
3. Data preparation, interpretation and analysis
4. Fieldwork - Sava River; hydromorphological assesment according to CEN standard
5. Data preparation, interpretation and analysis
6. Thermal pollution - test organisms Gammarus fossarum, Erpobdella octoculata
7. Data interpretation and analysis
8. Fieldwork - Drava River; macrozoobenthos sampling in large rivers; sampling at hydromorphologically degraded sites and at reference site
9. Samples processing and analysis, macrozoobenthos identification, part 1
10. Samples processing and analysis, macrozoobenthos identification, part 2
11. Identification techniques of Oligochaeta and Diptera (Chironomidae); indicators of hydromorphological degradation and organic pollution
12. Data preparation, interpretation and analysis
13. Fieldwork - Savica; plankton sampling
14. Analysis of plankton samples collected from lakes at different trophic states
15. Data preparation, interpretation and analysis

1. Maitland, P. S., Morgan, N. C., 1997: Consrvation Management of Freshwater Habitats. Chapman & Hall, London, 231.
2. Mason, C. F., 1996: Biology of Freshwater Pollution, Longam, London, 356.
3. Rosenberg, D. M., Resh, V. H. ed., 1993: Freshwater Biomenitoring and Benthic Macroinvertebrates. Chapman & Hall, London, 488.
4. Mihaljević i sur., 2011: Testiranje bioloških metoda ocjene ekološkog stanja (Okvirna direktiva o vodama, 2000/60/EC) u reprezentativnim slivovima Panonske i Dinaridske ekoregije. PMF, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb.
5. Habdija i sur., 2008: Ekološko istraživanje površinskih kopnenih voda u Hrvatskoj prema Okvirnoj direktivi o vodama, PMF, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb.

Mandatory course - Regular module - Fresh Water