Bi8170 Flora of the Czech Republic

Faculty of Science
Spring 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
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026.
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