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.
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