PřF:Bi6549 Methods of phytosociology - Course Information
Bi6549 Methods of phytosociology
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Jiří Danihelka, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Lubomír Tichý, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Lubomír Tichý, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Lubomír Tichý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Wed 16:00–17:50 BR2
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (! B6549 Methods of phytosociology )&&( B6450 Methods of floristic research || Bi6450 Basic methods of field botany )
- 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
- Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (programme PřF, B-EB)
- Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (programme PřF, B-EB, specialization Botany)
- Biology - Museology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Botany)
- Systematic Biology and Ecology (programme PřF, B-BI)
- Systematic Biology and Ecology (programme PřF, B-BI, specialization Systematic Botany and Ecology)
- Systematic Biology and Ecology (programme PřF, M-BI, specialization Systematic Botany and Ecology)
- Systematic Biology and Ecology (programme PřF, N-BI, specialization Systematic Botany and Ecology)
- Course objectives
- The main goal of the course is practical introduction into management and processing of botanical field records and relevés from vegetation plots. In the first part of the course, students will establish their own electronic database of herbarium labels and a data bank of field records. In the second part of the course, students will learn methods of vegetation description and classification with techniques of the Zurich-Montpellier school of phytosociology, including digitisation of phytosociological data, their basic management in standard computer programs (Turboveg). Finally, students will be taught to edit phytosociological tables and to classify them using numerical methods.
- Syllabus
- 1-2. Introduction into the work with a simple electronic database; establishment of a database of herbarium labels.
- 3-6. Data bank of botanical field records (program package Janitor 1): structure and work wit the data base; establishment a data bank and entry of botanical field records.
- 7-8. Database system TURBOVEG: data storage and selection of phytosociological data.
- 8-9. Analysis of phytosociological data with using the JUICE program.
- 10-11. Vegetation classification using the divisive algorithm TWINSPAN, determination of diagnostic species.
- 12-13. Calibration with the Ellenberg indicator values.
- Literature
- MORAVEC, Jaroslav. Fytocenologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1994, 403 s. ISBN 8020004572. info
- Teaching methods
- Presentation of program functions alternates with individual practical projects
- Assessment methods
- The course consists mainly of practical work with computer programs. Every student will establish his own database of herbarium labels and as group task a data bank of botanical field records. Further, he will sample about 5 phytosociological relevés in the field, compare them with other relevés already published, digitise them using the TURBOVEG database program and will prepare a phytosociological table. The results will be presented as a short scientific paper. Understanding the basic theory is also indispensable. Credit.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytry/metfytoc/
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/sci/spring2013/Bi6549