546-0921/02 – Geobotany (GBotD)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 10 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc. |
| Study level | postgraduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | | Semester | winter + summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2002/2003 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Doctoral |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Application of Phytosociological data in Science and Research.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
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.
Compulsory 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.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Oral exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
writing an essay on a given topic
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
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.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks