PřF:Bi6540 Vegetation of Czech Republic - Course Information
Bi6540 Vegetation of the Czech Republic
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 3/0/0. 3 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Tue 12:00–14:50 BR4
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ( Bi2130 Field course of system. botany || Bi2230 Field course of botany )&&( Bi2030 System evol. higher plants )&&(! B6540 Vegetation of Czech Republic )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course provides basic overview of main types of natural, semi-natural and anthropogenic vegetation of the Czech Republic, based on the phytosociological classification system. The students will understand species composition, habitat conditions, distribution and dynamics of particular vegetation types.
- Syllabus
- 1. Basic terms: flora, vegetation, plant community, stand; units of hierarchical vegetation classification. 2. Abiotic natural conditions of the Czech Republic and their effect on vegetation. 3. Broad-leaved deciduous forests: main forest trees, their habitat requirements and competitive relationships, dynamics of natural forests, human impact on forests, modification of site conditions by tree layer. 4. Types of broad-leaved deciduous forests: beech, oak-hornbeam, ravine, floodplain, acidophilous oak, thermophilous oak forests and alder carrs. 5. Coniferous forests: spruce, boreo-continental and peri-Alpidic pine forests, krummholz. 6. Alpine vegetation: alpine timberline, anemo-orographic systems; alpine grasslands, tall-forb vegetation. 7. Vegetation of cliffs, screes and primitive soils. 8. Aquatic vegetation, reeds, tall-sedge stands and ephemeral wetland vegetation. 9. Saline vegetation. Plant adaptations to saline soils, main types of saline vegetation. 10. Mires: fens, transitional mires, bogs, bog pine forests, subalpine mires, peatland meadows. Spring vegetation. 11. Meadows and pastures: history of meadow vegetation, habitat, dynamics, management; main types of meadow and pasture vegetation. 12. Nardus grasslands and heathlands. 13. Dry grasslands: their relationships to steppe vegetation, habitat, main types of dry grasslands. 14. Anthropogenic vegetation: origin of synanthropic flora, ecology of arable weeds, main types of anthropogenic vegetation.
- Literature
- CHYTRÝ, Milan; Tomáš KUČERA and Martin KOČÍ. Katalog biotopů České republiky (Habitat catalogue of the Czech Republic). Praha: Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny, 2001, 307 pp. ISBN 80-86064-55-7. URL info
- CHYTRÝ, Milan; Martin KOČÍ; Kateřina ŠUMBEROVÁ; Jiří SÁDLO; František KRAHULEC; Petra HÁJKOVÁ; Michal HÁJEK; Aleš HOFMANN; Denisa BLAŽKOVÁ; Tomáš KUČERA; Jan NOVÁK; Marcela ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ; Tomáš ČERNÝ; Handrij HÄRTEL; Deana SIMONOVÁ; Lubomír TICHÝ; Ilona KNOLLOVÁ; Zdenka OTÝPKOVÁ; Jiří DANIHELKA; Ondřej HÁJEK; Klára KUBOŠOVÁ; Katrin KARIMOVÁ and Jiří ROZEHNAL. Vegetace České republiky 1. Travinná a keříčková společenstva (Vegetation of the Czech Republic 1. Grassland and heathland vegetation). Praha: Academia, 2007, 526 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-1462-7. URL info
- NEUHÄUSLOVÁ, Zdenka; Denisa BLAŽKOVÁ; Vít GRULICH; Miroslava HUSOVÁ; Milan CHYTRÝ; Jan JENÍK; Jaroslav JIRÁSEK; Jiří KOLBEK; Zdeněk KROPÁČ; Vojen LOŽEK; Jaroslav MORAVEC; Karel PRACH; Kamil RYBNÍČEK; Eliška RYBNÍČKOVÁ and Jiří SÁDLO. Mapa potenciální přirozené vegetace České republiky. Textová část (Map of potential natural vegetation of the Czech Republic. Explanatory text.). Praha: Academia, 1998, 341 pp. ISBN 80-200-0687-7. info
- ELLENBERG, Heinz. Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen in ökologischer, dynamisher und historischer Sicht. 5. veränd. und verb. Aufl. Stuttgart: Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 1996, 1095 s. ISBN 3-8001-2696-6. info
- Assessment methods
- Lecture, oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Teacher's information
- http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytry/veg-cr/
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/sci/spring2009/Bi6540