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BOT / FTGSB
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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BOT
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FTGSB
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Plant Geography
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Written
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Type of completion
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Written
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Time requirements
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Přednáška
2
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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Czech, English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech, English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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BOT/FTGO
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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Plant geography (phytogeography), main phytogeographical disciplines.
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Requirements on student
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knowledge in extent of the lectures
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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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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Recommended:
Cox, C. B. et Moore, P. D. Biogeography. An ecological and evolutionary approach. 5th ed. Blackwell Science, Cambridge, 1993.
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Recommended:
Lomolino, M. V., Riedle, B. R. et Brown, J. K. Biogeography. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publisher Swederland, Massachusetts, 2006.
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Recommended:
Archibold, O. W. Ecology of World Vegetation. Chapman & Hall, London, Glasgow etc., 1995.
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Recommended:
Lomolino, M. V. et Henry, L. R. eds. Frontiers of Biogeography. New Directions in the Geography of Nature. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publisher Swederland, Massachusetts, 2004.
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Recommended:
Hendrych R. Fytogeografie. SPN Praha, 1984.
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Recommended:
Klímovský, J. et Stýblo, P. eds. Nepůvodní druhy fauny a flóry České republiky. Praha.
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On-line library catalogues
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
Prerequisites - more information to conditions of study. Elementary knowledge in Botany, Geography and History of the Earth. |
Competences acquired |
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 |
Teaching methods |
- Lecture
- Projection (static, dynamic)
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Assessment methods |
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