Geobotany

Geobotany
546-0921/01
čeština Geobotany
546-0921/02
čeština

Summary

The subject is intended for doctoral students having knowledge of ecology, who
are concerned with issues of vegetation in individual types of landscapes.
Special emphasis is put on subtypes of industrial landscape. The subject is
focused on Zurich-Montpellier classification of plant communities with
ecological factors, multidimensional analysis of plant data and environmental
data. It deals with vegetation phenomena with regard to geomorphology, geology
and microclimate of landscape with special attention paid to the industrial
landscape. It is concerned with the structure of vegetation and landscape over
a greater spatial scale, landscape heterogeneity, changes in the distribution
of chosen plants and plant communities with reference to environmental
factors. The subject includes applications, i.e. the use of vegetation maps
and other vegetation data in landscape planning, landscape restoration, nature
protection in relation to ecological regeneration and bioindication.

Literature

Bawa, K. S.; Menon, S. Biodiversity Monitoring. The missing ingredients. Trends
in Ecology and Evolution: 12, 1997. 42 s.
Ferson, S.; Bergman, M. Quantitative Methods for Conservation Biology.
Springer, 2000. 322 p.

Advised literature

Petts, J. (ed.) Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. Blackswell
Sci.,1999. 934 p.
Inderjit (2005): Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects.
Birkhäuser Basel. (Print) 978-3-7643-7380-1 (Online)
Allen TFH & Starr TB (1982). Hierarchy. Perspectives for ecological
complexity. University of Chicago Press.
M.J. Crawley a kol. (1997): Plant ecology.
Dale MRT (1999) Spatial pattern analysis in plant ecology. Cambridge University
Press.
Ellenberg H. : Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen (Vegetation ecology of
Central Europe).
Greig-Smith P. (1983). Quantitative plant ecology. Blackwell.
J.P. Grime, J.G. Hodgson a R. Hunt (1988): Comparative plant ecology.
Kent M., Coker P. (1992) Vegetation description and analysis. A practical
approach.
Roberts N. (1998). The Holocene: An Environmental History. Blackwell.
J. Silvertown a D. Charlesworth (2001): Plant population biology.

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Language of instruction	čeština, čeština
Code	546-0921
Abbreviation	GBotD
Course title	Geobotany
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.