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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Phytocoenology

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0416/03
Abbreviation FTC
Course title Phytocoenology
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Hana Švehláková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Phytosociology - characteristics of the research field, links to other scientific areas
2. Classification of vegetation. Phytocoenosis, its main features and spatial delimitation.
3. Main directions and approaches in vegetation classification.
4. Basic principles of the Central European School of Phytosociology.
5. Phytosociological data processing - basic orientation in TURBOVEG
6. Phytosociological data processing - basic orientation in the JUICE
7. Principles of field work, field experiments, selection, number, size, location of plots (reléves)
8. Recording of reléves
9. Synthesis of reléves
10. Methods of calculating frequency, stability, fidelity
11. Methods of calculating the diversity of plant communities
12. Methods of calculating the similarity of plant communities
13. Multicriteria analysis of phytosociological data - basic orientation in R project
14. Multicriteria analysis of phytosociological data - basic orientation in the CANOCO 5

Literature

TICHÝ, L. Holt, J.(2006): Juice program for management, analysis and classification of ecological data. Brno: http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/juice, 2006. 98 pp.
Chytrý M., Rafajová M. (2003): Czech National Phytosociological Database: basic statistics of the available vegetation-plot data. Preslia 75: 1–15.
TeerBRAAK, C. J. F., ŠMILAUER, P. (2012): CANOCO 5. Reference manual and user’s guide to Canoco for Windows: Software for Ordination. Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, New York, USA. 496 pp.

Advised literature

DIERSCHKE H.: Pflanzensoziologie (Grundlagen und Methoden). - Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1994.
BRAUN –BLANQUET, J. (1964) : Pflanzensoziologie: Grundzüge der Vegetationskunde. 3. neubearb. und wesentlich vermehrte Aufl. Wien: Apringer-Verlag. 631 stran.