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Lecturer(s)
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Ondřej Vladan, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
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Majeský Luboš, RNDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Plant distribution areas and its mapping (distribution maps). Plant endemism, MacArthur & Wilson's theory of island biogeography. Plant relict species. Plant diaspores (propagules) and their basic forms of dissemination, geohistorical aspects of plant migrations. Synanthropic plants. An outline of florogenesis (from Pre-Cambrium to the present), with an emphasis to the Central European Region. Floristic regions, vegetation zones. Characteristics of the major biomes of the Earth. Phytogeographical subdivision of the Czech Republic (Thermophyticum, Mesophyticum, Oreophyticum). Delimitation of vegetation belts. Cultivated plants and crop sepcies, Vavilov's centres of crop origins and genetic diversity. Genetic diversity, molecular phylogeny, in relation to the extension plants and their domestication and breeding.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
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- 2 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Plant geography (phytogeography), main phytogeographical disciplines.
Student should be able to (after attending the course): - Recall the terminology of chorological, historical and regional phytogeography, links to other scientific fields (ecology, evolutionary biology). - Explain the trends of Plant distribution on Earth, the spatial and temporal consequences, interactions among organisms and the environment. - Explain the major abiotic (climatic) factors influencing the plant distribution on Earth (water and temperature). - Explain the impact of human civilization on plant invasions. - Debate the policy on decreasing the plant diversity on global scale. - Know the new method fylogeografického study (molecular biology methods) - Know the gene centers of cultivated plants and their importance for breeding
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Prerequisites
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Prerequisites - more information to conditions of study. Elementary knowledge in Botany, Plant Ecology, Geography and History of the Earth.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam
knowledge in extent of the lectures in relation to interdisciplinary context
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Recommended literature
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Archibold, O. W. (1995). Ecology of World Vegetation. Chapman & Hall, London, Glasgow etc.
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Cox, C. B. et Moore, P. D. (1993). Biogeography. An ecological and evolutionary approach. 5th ed. Blackwell Science, Cambridge.
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Hendrych R. (1984). Fytogeografie. SPN Praha.
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Klímovský, J. et Stýblo, P. eds. Nepůvodní druhy fauny a flóry České republiky. Praha.
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Lomolino, M. V. et Henry, L. R. eds. (2004). Frontiers of Biogeography. New Directions in the Geography of Nature. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publisher Swederland, Massachusetts.
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Lomolino, M. V., Riedle, B. R. et Brown, J. K. (2006). Biogeography. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publisher Swederland, Massachusetts.
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