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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Geobotany

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0921/02
Abbreviation GBotD
Course title Geobotany
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Phytosociological schools.
2. Methods of data collection, processing and evaluation of data.
3. Vegetation mapping, real vegetation map.
4. Biotopes of the Czech Republic for Natura 2000 - Classification and description of biotopes.
5. Characteristics of the most important types of vegetation in the Czech Republic (syntaxonomy, species composition, ecological characteristics, distribution, degree of threat, importance in landscape).
6. Communities of water and wetlands - standing water.
7. Water and Wet Communities - running water.
8. Shows and pastures.
9. Xerotermic grassland communities.
10. Peat, salt and sandy communities.
11. Fellowships and screech communities.
12. Communities of alpine lawns and lawns.
13. Shrubs and sheaths.
14. The communities of deciduous and mixed forests - floodplain forests, alders. Communities of deciduous and leafy forests - scrub woods.
15. The communities of deciduous and mixed forests - oak forests.
16. The communities of deciduous and mixed forests - beech trees.
17. Conifers of coniferous forests and woody plants.
18. Forest Beekeeping Associations.
19. Synantropic vegetation.
20. Main manifestations of synantropy of forest and non-forest communities.

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. ISBN 978-3-7643-7137-1  (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.