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ADSORPTION OF ALGAL ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCED BY MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA ONTO ACTIVATED CARBON
Krsová, Magdalena ; Pivokonský, Martin (advisor) ; Benešová, Libuše (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to evaluate the efficiency of two types of granular activated carbon (GAC), Filtrasorb TL 830 and Picabiol 12x40, for the adsorption of cellular peptides with low molecular weight produced by cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa that are hardly removable during the coagulation/flocculation processes. The effect of different carbon properties (surface charge, textural characteristics), peptide properties (molecular size, surface functionality and charge) and solution characteristics (ionic strength and pH value) on the peptide uptake was investigated using laboratory equilibrium and kinetic adsorption experiments. The results showed that adsorption of peptides was influenced by the charge conditions in adsorption system that depend on solution pH. The pH value influences surface charge and the point of zero charge (pHpzc) of GAC as well as dissociation and protonization of peptide functional groups. It was found that efficiency of the peptide adsorption increased with decreasing pH value for both GACs. Under these conditions adsorption was enhanced by attractive electrostatic interactions between GAC surface and peptide functional groups and was also positively influenced by the conformation changes in peptide structure. GAC Picabiol 12x40 showed the total highest...
Homogenization of bird communities
Krsová, Magdalena ; Reif, Jiří (advisor) ; Sedláček, Ondřej (referee)
Biotic homogenization is characterized as a process by which means species invasions and extinctions increase the genetic, taxonomic or functional similarity among ecological communities and this process is associated with modern biodiversity crisis. The most prominent patterns of recent homogenization of species composition in avian communities are loss of native species and their replacement by non-native species, expanding habitat generalists at the expense of native and more specialized species. As a result, increases in local or alpha-diversity typically occur at the expense of decreased beta-diversity or increased community similarity among regions. These patterns are probably caused by introduction non-native species, urbanization, landscape fragmentation and disturbance. These results suggest that conservation effort should focus on protection of unique habitats where ecologically specialised species occur. Further research in this area could provide better basis for generation of simulation models aimed to predicting changes in community composition.

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1 Krsová, Martina
2 Krsová, Michaela
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