PřF:Bi6450 Basic methods of field botany - Course Information
Bi6450 Basic methods of field botany
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Jiří Danihelka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Ing. Jiří Danihelka, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Ing. Jiří Danihelka, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Tue 11:00–12:50 BR3
- 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
- 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
- Basic knowledge necessary for field botanical research will be taught, including information on identification handbooks, regional floras, maps, databases, herbarium collections and methods of collecting herbarium specimens. A scientific herbarium collection will be visited. In the field, methods of botanical recording and geobotanical research will be demonstrated, including establishment of vegetation plots. At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand basic botanical data and information sources; acquire information and data necessary for their own field research; collect and prepare herbarium specimens; make botanical field records; establish vegetation plots.
- Syllabus
- history of botanical research in Bohemia and Moravia
- choice of research area
- identification handbooks, national and regional floras, botanical databases and herbarium collections
- herbarium of the Masaryk University
- collecting herbarium specimens in the field
- botanical recording in the field
- establishment of vegetation plots in the field
- Literature
- Flora of the Czech Republic : Květena České republiky. Vols 1–7: Edited by Bohumil Slavík & Slavomil Hejný (vols. 1-3), Bohumil Slavík (vols. 4-6), Bohumil Slavík & Jitka Štěpánková (vol. 7). Praha 1988-2004.
- DOSTÁL, Josef. Nová květena ČSSR. Praha: Academia, 1989, 1548 pp. ISBN 80-200-0095-X. info
- SMEJKAL, Miroslav. Komentovaný katalog moravské flóry. Brno, 1980, 301 pp. Učební texty PřF UJEP Brno. info
- Teaching methods
- six lectures (6 x 2 hours); two days of field work aimed at methods of plant recording and establishment of vegetation plots
- Assessment methods
- Credit course: compulsary attendance of both field excursions and a field notebook; esablishment of three vegetation plots in different vegetation types (forest, meadow and a third vegetation type chosen by the student).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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