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Course: Functional Approach to Vegetation Study

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Course title Functional Approach to Vegetation Study
Course code EKO/FPSV
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Rychnovská Milena, prof. RNDr. DrSc.
Course content
Relation of plants to environmental variables. How to deduce hypotheses on limiting factors from field observations of plants. Verification of those hypotheses in situ or in field experiments. How to define and quantify plant prosperity. Simple field and laboratory checking of plant adaptation to abiotic variables: light, water relations and soil acidity. From obsarvation ecology to causal explanation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at presenting actual information and procedures from the branch. Major approaches, conceptual and theoretical topics are listed in syllabus.
- Collect observational information about plants - Formulate a hypothesis about factors limiting their occurrence - Test the hypothesis by field experiments and comparisons analogous habitats
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Essay, Student performance

Colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Larcher, W. (1995). Physiological Plant Ecology. 3rd.. Edition. Springer, Berlin. Pp.506.
  • Caldwell, M.M. et Pearcy, R.W. (1994). Exploitation of Environmental Heterogeneity by Plants.. Ecophysiological Processes Above- and Belowground. Academic Press, San Diego. Pp.429.
  • Fitter, A.H. et Hay, R.K.M. (1991). Environmental Physiology of Plants.. Academic Press, London. Pp.355.
  • Grime, J.P. (1979). Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes.. John Wiley, Chichester. Pp.222.
  • Jurko, A. Ekologické a socioekonomické hodnotenie vegetácie.. Príroda, Bratislava. Pp.195.
  • Klika,J., Novák,V. et Gregor,A. (1954). Praktikum fytocenologie, ekologie, klimatologie a půdoznalství.. Nakladatelství ČSAV, Praha. Pp. 773.
  • Rychnovská, M. (ed.). Structure and Functioning of Seminatural Meadows.. Academia, Prha, Pp.386.
  • Rychnovská, M. et Úlehlová, B. (1975). Autökologische Studie der Tschechoslowakischen Stipa-Arten.. Academia, Praha. Pp.170.
  • Rychnovská,M. et al. (1987). Metody studia travinných ekosystémů.. Academia, Praha. Pp.269.
  • Slavík, B. et al. (1995). Metody studia vodního provozu rostlin.. Nakladatelství ČSAV, Praha. Pp.302.
  • Šesták, Z., Čatský, J. et al. (1996). Metody studia fotosynthetické produkce rostlin.. Nakladatelství ČSAV, Praha. Pp.394.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 01.05.2025 23:59. Data created for academic year 2024/2025