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Bi8030 Production biology

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2011 - acreditation

The information about the term Autumn 2011 - acreditation is not made public

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. Ing. Miloš Barták, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Martina Matoušková, PhD. (lecturer)

Supervisor

prof. Ing. Miloš Barták, CSc.
Department of Experimental Biology - Biology Section - Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Věra Faronová

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

At the end of this course student should be able to:
evaluate basic mechanisms and factors underlying plant biomass production in biosphere;
explain the processes of carbon fixation and carbon loss in plants;
relate the size of production and environmental factors;
analyze and predict of plant production based on mathematical modeling.

Syllabus

( 1 ) Productivity of the Earth ecosystems, global cycling of N and C
( 2 ) Solar energy as a basic energy source, spectral and energetic properties of solar radiation
( 3 ) Interception and absorption of solar radiation by plants, optical properties of leaves, components of radiation balance
( 4 ) Minerals, water, air and soil temperature as driving factors of plant production
( 5 ) Fotosynthesis and respiration, carbon balance, gross and nett photosynthesis, photochemical and biochemical part of photosynthesis. Principles of photoprotective mechanisms.
( 6 ) Transport and allocation of assimilates, source-sink relatin
( 7 ) Biomass growth in time, growth curves, analysis of growth processes
( 8 ) Limits of plant production, supplemental energy, agroecosystems, plant cultivation in artifical systems
( 9 ) Laboratory and field methods of plant production
( 10 ) Principals of production estimation on individual and community level. Mathematical simulation and modelling of plant production - basic terminology
( 11 ) Modelling of plant production, basic types of models
( 12 ) Plant production models, advantages and disadvantages, exaples of application in practice
( 13 ) The use of methods of plant production biology in practice

Literature

BARTÁK, Miloš. Chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool in physiological plant ecology: Assessment of plant photosynthetic response to long-term elevated CO2. (Chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool in physiological plant ecology: Assessment of plant photosynthetic response to long-term elevated CO2.). In Topics in Ecology. Structure and Function in Plants and Ecosystems. Antwerp: University of Antwerp, 2000. p. 211-221. ISBN 90-5728-022-1. info
Handbook of functional plant ecology. Edited by Fernando Valladares - Francisco I. Pugnaire. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999. xiv, 901 s. ISBN 0-8247-1950-6. info
FITTER, Alastair and Robert HAY. Environmental physiology of plants. 3rd ed. San Diego: Academic press, 2002. xii, 367 s. ISBN 0-12-257766-3. info

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