PřF:Bi5210 Plant population ecology - Course Information
Bi5210 Plant population ecology
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2026
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Lubomír Tichý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- 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 - Prerequisites
- ! B5210 Plant ecology
BI5080 Basics of ecology - 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-EKB)
- Course objectives
- The course is an introduction to plant population ecology. It characterises life and grow forms, life strategies, plant clonal growth, types of plant reproduction and interspecific and intraspecific competition.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to explain the behaviour of plant species in space and time with using real examples and understand possibilities of their co-existence under different ecological conditions at the end of the course.
- Syllabus
- 1. Population definition, demography. 2. Life forms. 3. Life cycle of annual, biennial and perennial species. 4. Generative reproduction: pollination, seed production and their dispersion, seed bank, dormancy. 5. Types of vegetative dispersal - clonality. 6. Colonisation, expansion a invasion. Allelopathy. 7. Intraspecific competition, regulation of population density. 8. Interspecific competition, parasitism, mutualism, herbivory, carnivory. 9. Plant life strategies. 10. Metapopulations.
- Literature
- required literature
- BEGON, Michael; John L. HARPER and Colin R. TOWNSEND. Ekologie : jedinci, populace a společenstva. Translated by Bronislava Grygová - Barbara Köberleová - Zdeněk Brandl. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1997, xxiv, 949. ISBN 8070676957. info
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical knowledge will be presented in lectures.
- Assessment methods
- The final exam is either oral or written. The method of completion is determined by the examiner based on the number of students registered for the specified date on the day of the exam. The exam content includes the verification of knowledge of the topics covered in lectures and the above-mentioned literature.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every other week.
Note related to how often the course is taught: Předmět je přednášek půlku semestru v dvouhodinových lekcích. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2026, recent)
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