PřF:Bi8170 Flora of the Czech Republic - Course Information
Bi8170 Flora of the Czech Republic
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Novák, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Novák, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 17. 2. to Sat 24. 5. Mon 10:00–11:50 D36/225
- 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
- Plant Biosystematics (programme PřF, N-BOT)
- Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (programme PřF, B-EKB)
- Plant Ecology (programme PřF, N-BOT)
- Phycology and Mycology (programme PřF, N-BOT)
- Nature Conservation - Botany (programme PřF, N-OCH)
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand main principles of constitution of recent flora and vegetation of the Czech Republic and their changes; to learn a causality in distribution of endemics and relics and main courses of postglacial migrations; to understand regional diferencies in flora and vegetation within the Czech Republic.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course students should be able to: - identify basic principles which forming the flora of the Czech Republic; - identify causes for endemism; - understand relics of glacial and/or early postglacial periods; - discuss problems of migration ways of xerotherm species during florogenesis; - list basic characteristic of flora and vegetation in various regions of the Czech Republic.
- Syllabus
- Environmental characteristics of the Czech republic related to its flora
- Endemics in the Flora of the Czech Republic (types of endemism, distribution of endemics).
- Relics in the Flora of the Czech Republic (migroelements, chronoelements).
- Ways of migration of xerophilous, thermophilous and mountain species - traditional ad modern viewpoints, phytochorotypes
- Red lists, conservation of plant diversity, action plans
- Native and alien plant species, invasive species
- Types of phytogeographical divisions (florogenetical, typological).
- Phytogeographical regions of thermophyticum.
- Phytogeographical regions of mesophyticum.
- Phytogeographical regions of oreophyticum.
- Literature
- CHYTRÝ, Milan; Jiří DANIHELKA; Zdeněk KAPLAN; Jan WILD; Dana HOLUBOVÁ; Petr NOVOTNÝ; Marcela ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ; Martin ROHN; Pavel DŘEVOJAN; Vít GRULICH; Jitka KLIMEŠOVÁ; Jan LEPŠ; Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ; Jan PERGL; Jiří SÁDLO; Petr ŠMARDA; Petra ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ; Lubomír TICHÝ; Irena AXMANOVÁ; Alena BARTUŠKOVÁ; Petr BLAŽEK; Chrtek Jr. CHRTEK; Felicia MIRANDA FISCHER; Wen-Yong GUO; Tomáš HERBEN; Zdeněk JANOVSKÝ; Marie KONEČNÁ; Ingolf KÜHN; Lenka MORAVCOVÁ; Petr PETŘÍK; Simon PIERCE; Karel PRACH; Helena PROKEŠOVÁ; Milan ŠTECH; Jakub TĚŠITEL; Tamara TĚŠITELOVÁ; Martin VEČEŘA; David ZELENÝ and Petr PYŠEK. Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation. Preslia. Praha: Česká botanická společnost, 2021, vol. 93, No 1, p. 1-87. ISSN 0032-7786. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2021.001. URL info
- KAPLAN, Zdeněk; Jiří DANIHELKA; Jindřich jun. CHRTEK; Jan KIRSCHNER; Karel KUBÁT; Milan ŠTECH; Jan ŠTĚPÁNEK; Petr BATOUŠEK; Petr BUREŠ; Roman BUSINSKÝ; Jaroslav ČÁP; Martin DANČÁK; Michal DUCHÁČEK; Martin DUCHOSLAV; Václav DVOŘÁK; Libor EKRT; Petr FILIPPOV; Vít GRULICH; Daniel HRČKA; Michal HRONEŠ; Lubomír HROUDA; Zdenka HROUDOVÁ; Vladimír JEHLÍK; Klára KABÁTOVÁ; Gergely KIRÁLY; Ludmila KIRSCHNEROVÁ; Lucie KOBRLOVÁ; Kateřina KOČÍ; Petr KOUTECKÝ; František KRAHULEC; Pavel KÚR; Martin LEPŠÍ; Petr LEPŠÍ; Bohumil MANDÁK; Jan PONERT; Jan PRANČL; Petr PYŠEK; Radomír ŘEPKA; Jiří SÁDLO; Jan SUDA; Otakar ŠÍDA; Petr ŠMARDA; Pavel ŠPRYŇAR; Jitka ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ; Bohumil TRÁVNÍČEK; Pavel TRÁVNÍČEK; Jiří UHER; Radim Jan VAŠUT; Václav VĚTVIČKA; Jiří ZÁZVORKA and Václav ZELENÝ. Klíč ke květeně České republiky (Key to the flora of the Czech Republic). 2, aktualizované vydání. Praha: Academia, 2019, 1168 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2660-6. info
- CHYTRÝ, Milan; Petr PYŠEK; Zdeněk KAPLAN and Jiří DANIHELKA. Flora and vegetation of the Czech Republic: introduction to special issue dedicated to the centenary of the Czech Botanical Society. Preslia. Praha: Česká botanická společnost, 2012, vol. 84, No 3, p. 393–396. ISSN 0032-7786. URL info
- CHYTRÝ, Milan; Tomáš KUČERA; Martin KOČÍ; Vít GRULICH; Pavel LUSTYK; Kateřina ŠUMBEROVÁ; Jiří SÁDLO; Zdenka NEUHÄUSLOVÁ; Michal HÁJEK; Kamil RYBNÍČEK; František KRAHULEC; Andrea KUČEROVÁ; Jiří KOLBEK and Štěpán HUSÁK. Katalog biotopů České republiky. Druhé vydání (Habitat catalogue of the Czech Republic. Second edition). 2nd ed. Praha: Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, 2010, 445 pp. Katalog biotopů České republiky. ISBN 978-80-87457-02-3. URL info
- CULEK, Martin; Antonín BUČEK; Vít GRULICH; Pavel HARTL; Antonín HRABICA; Jan KOCIÁN; Štěpán KYJOVSKÝ and Jan LACINA. Biogeografické členění České republiky. II. díl. (Biogeographical division of the Czech Republic. Vol. 2.). 1st ed. Praha: Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, 2005, 589 pp. Biogeografické členění ČR, svazek 2. ISBN 80-86064-82-4. info
- Biogeografické členění České republiky. Edited by Martin Culek. Praha: ENIGMA, 1996, 347 s. +. ISBN 80-85368-80-3. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, 2 hours weekly
- Assessment methods
- oral exam, 3 questions: a. general characteristics of the Czech flora b. and c. flora and vegetation of 2 selected regions
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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