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Diet of great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) in conflict localities
Ráslová, Pavlína ; Čech, Martin (advisor) ; Vrána, Pavel (referee)
vi Abstract Continental subspecies of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) is the Czech Republic's most important fish-eating predator. It causes damage to production fish, as well as sport fishermen and even after its removal from the Czech list of endangered species in 2013, it did not disappear from the spotlight of both local fishermen and researchers. This thesis evaluates the qualitative and quantitative composition of the cormorant's diet during winter 2011/2012 at two selected locations: the Žehuň pond (Kolín district) and Berounka river in the natural reserve Zábělá near Pilsen. This work studies the main components of cormorant's diet in the selected locations and evaluates potential fluctuations and changes in its composition during winter. The study also conducted the analysis of the proportion of commercially harvested valuable fish in cormorant's diet and studied its diversity of the species spectrum. The resulting data for the two sites were compared with each other and with relevant literature. Regurgitated pellets analysis, as well as analysis of diagnostic bones and fish remains located at the sleeping roosts (night roosts) were used for the diet analysis. It was found that at both sites roach was the most caught fish, but from the point of view of total biomass, it was...
Obesity and overweight - possibilities of influencing by exercise in adult men
Čech, Martin ; Bunc, Václav (advisor) ; Strejcová, Barbora (referee)
Title: Obesity and overweight - possibilities of influencing by exercise in adult men Objective: Obesity and overweight are currently worldwide widespread disease, which have serious health, socioeconomic and psychological consequences. The main aim of this diploma thesis is to design, implement and verify appropriate exercise programs, whose purpose is the positive effect on individual components of body composition, aerobic capacity and overall quality of life of men, including their health. Methods: The main diagnostic methods used in the case study were: bioimpedance analysis, spiroergometry, WHOQOL questionnaire and a complete health assessment. Discussion and results: The results imply that unless in set case the established exercise program was followed, the significant positive changes in the indicators were observed. It has been shown that increase in volume of physical activity led to significant improvements in overall quality of life of men. As a main problem was failure to comply with established exercise program resulting primarily from workload of men. Key words: Obesity, overweight, disease, physical activity, physical activity program.
The Sexual Segregation of fish from family Cyprinidae in the Řimov Reservoir
Žák, Jakub ; Prchalová, Marie (advisor) ; Čech, Martin (referee)
The sexual segregation, defined as different use of space by sexes is widespread phenomenon in the animal tree of life. As a result of segregation there is a different use of resources such as habitat, prey items or different threat by predation. Nevertheless it is not well studied in fish taxa except in marine environment. The common and widespread freshwater species such as a bream (Abramis brama), a bleak (Alburnus alburnus) and a roach (Rutilus rutilus) so far have not never been studied from the perspective of sexual segregation too. This thesis aims to examine the sexual segregation of these species and to test premises of sexual segregation such as sexual size dimorphism, age composition and differences in food. Afterwards the different space use of sexes in the Římov reservoir was tested. The gillnet sampling was used to collect data. Gillnets were installed to four localities in longitudinal gradient of reservoir in epilimnion where is the highest abundance of fish. Sampling was performed in August from 2009 to 2016. Results of this thesis show that females and males have different life histories and that bleak and roach are significantly bigger and older than males. The size dimorphism in bream was confirmed but not age difference between sexes. Sexes of bream had different diet. Males...
Survey of European catfish population in Žlutice Reservoir in 2019
Vejřík, Lukáš ; Sajdlová, Zuzana ; Bartoň, Daniel ; Kolařik, Tomáš ; Čech, Martin
The report summarizes the results of monitoring the abundance, size structure, behavior and feeding of catfish food in the Žlutice Resevoir. It also contains conclusions and recommendations for the management.
Analysis of photo-records of non-fish prey in the diet of selected species of fish-eating birds
Mach, Jakub ; Čech, Martin (advisor) ; Vejřík, Lukáš (referee)
Piscivorous birds are often blamed for causing significant damage to fish stocks. Various methods are used to determine the composition of their food, each of them has limits in its ability to determine the complete food spectrum. This work maps the complete food composition of 14 species of fish-eating birds with a method that is not commonly used. Method used in this work uses analysis of publicly available photos on Google.com. In addition to the complete composition of the food, the species composition of the non-fish part of the prey was also determined, and in the case of the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), also the length of the fishes it catches. The aim of this work is to reveal the usability of this method for these purposes. A total of 2350 retrieved photographs were analyzed. The results obtained by photo analysis are in all cases compared with data in the available literature. For representatives of heron birds (Ardeidae), the analysis of photographs provided good information on the food spectrum of individual birds and on the qualitative composition of the non-fish component. It also provided relatively good information on the diet of the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), but the bird part of the prey was slightly underestimated. In the diet of the Great Crested Grebe...
Polynomial time primality testing
Bednaříková, Alžběta ; Žemlička, Jan (advisor) ; Čech, Martin (referee)
The topic of my thesis is the testing of prime numbers in polynomial time. The text focuses on the specific algorithm published in 2002 by Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena and it is known as the AKS primality test. In the introduction of this work, important properties and concepts essential for the text understanding are revised. Then the basic idea of the test is explained. The description of the algorithm itself continues. The aim of the work is to prove the Theorem on the correctness of the AKS test from a gradually built-up theory and to calculate the time complexity of the algorithm. Finally, it is proved that the calculated time complexity is polynomial.
Reasons and consequences of round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) invasion into the inland waters of Europe and North America
Starý, Vojtěch ; Čech, Martin (advisor) ; Vukićová, Jasna (referee)
Since the end of 1980s there is an ongoing massive invasion of fish from the family Gobiidae. The most widespread and aggressive of these fish is round goby (Neogobius melanostomus). Its natural habitat is area around Black and Caspian Seas, but nowadays it is already common in most of the European rivers, Baltic Sea and in the system of the North American Great Lakes. The main reason of the spreading is transport of ballast water from its natural habitat. The success of its invasion is due to the high tolerance to various factors like temperature, salinity, amount of oxygen in water, food sources and bottom substrates. Presence of the round goby in newly invaded rivers is beneficial for fish-eating predators. On the other hand competitors are highly disadvantaged as they lose in the fight with round goby over food, shelters and places for spawning and therefore, they are forced to live in less suitable habitats which leads to the decrease of their abundance. In recently colonized areas the round goby has much higher abundance than in its original habitats. The highest abundance is in the North America, where the round goby is causing the most noticeable change in the ecosystem. For this reason it is extensively studied mainly in the North America. Keywords: Gobiidae, Neogobius melanostomus,...
The effect of barriers on riverine fish communities
Kofentová, Nikola ; Horká, Petra (advisor) ; Čech, Martin (referee)
The construction of river obstacles is considered one of the major threat to freshwater ecosystems worldwide, with a greater impact upon riverine fish than any other human activity. River obstacles, especially dams and weirs, affect the natural environment in streams and rivers, causing changes in physical, chemical and biological processes and disrupting connectivity of rivers via alternating series of lotic and lentic reaches. The effect of obstacles is further magnified by associated habitat alterations like are channelization, flow regulation, fortification and deepening of a riverbed. Orga- nisms and especially fish that live in rivers are highly sensitive to these changes, which affects them at the level of individuals, species and the whole populations. The most pronounced is the barrier-effect to upstream and downstream migration and loss of habitats. Diadromous and rheophilic species of fish are the most sensitive ones as they have complex migration strategies and habitat requirements. Fish are further affected by obstacles via many other mechanisms, such as the effect on reproduction success, growth and development, changes in the composition and trophic structure of communities and restricted response to further environmental constraints including water pollution or predicted climate...
European catfish (Silurus glanis, Linneus 1758): Is the global warming the main reason of increasing of catches of the largest freshwater predator in Europe?
Bakeš, Michal ; Čech, Martin (advisor) ; Černý, Martin (referee)
European catfish (Silurus glanis, Linneus 1758) is our only fish which amount of catch is growing in our country in the last thirty years. The main goal of my work is to find out if global warming is essential for increasing catch of catfish, or whether rising temperatures are marginal, and the main reason is growing focus of fishermen on catfish. This thesis summarized knowledge about effect of global warming on ecosystems mainly on freshwater bodies that seem to be the most influenceable among terrestric ones. The enlarging populations of catfish in countries of south Europe (e.g. Spain, Italy) where catfish was recently introduced can be explained by the fact that warm water is suitable for catfish. However, some socioeconomic studies carried out in the Czech Republic as well as abroad clearly demonstrate that popularity of catching of catfish increases in time. I verified this idea by the results of my questionnaire survey, where 82 % of respondents approved that the popularity of catfish among fishermen is highest in the last decade. Based on the evidence we can say that increasing temperatures has a positive effect on the metapopulation of catfish in the Czech Republic, but this influence seems to be marginal. The main reason for still increasing catch is very likely the change of preferences...
The role of fish-eating predators and socio-economic trends in recreational fishing
Lyach, Roman ; Čech, Martin (advisor) ; Adámek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Jurajda, Pavel (referee)
Recreational fishing is a very important leisure activity and one of the most important ways how humans influence freshwater habitats and wild fish populations. Both fish-eating predators and socio-economic trends play a major role in recreational fishing. This thesis found that the Eurasian otter feeds mainly of small (5-10 g) and very abundant fish species of low angling value. In this case, gudgeon Gobio gobio dominated in the otter diet. The overlap between catches of otters and anglers was very low, and commercially important salmonids made up only 10 % of the otter diet by biomass. Cormorants also prey mostly on smaller (10-100 g) a very abundant fish species. In this case, roach Rutilus rutilus dominated in the cormorant diet. The overlap between catches of cormorants and anglers was also quite low. Commercially important fish species made up less than 10 % of the cormorant diet. Even though cormorants consume mostly smaller fish, they are potentially removing fish that serve as prey for piscivores, and they are also removing smaller fish that would grow into angling size. The Atlantic salmon Salmo salar reintroduction programme has not yet been successful. However, cormorant predation is not the main reason for its low success. The main problem is somewhere on the lower River Elbe in...

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