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Lecturer(s)
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Dančák Martin, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Botanical characteristics of particular tropical regions of the Earth. Significant and interesting plant taxa of the tropics (especially dominant families or genera), its geographical distribution and relates to out-of tropical regions and taxa. One chapter of the course is devoted to the taxa of plants with specific adaptations for the tropical environment, absent or almost absent in taxa of another regions (e.g. epiphytes, lianes, myrmecophytes etc.). Another chapter deals with the cultural and utility plants of tropics and with the methods of botanical research in tropical regions. Students will also work with herbaries what can help them to acquire characteristis features of tropical plant families. The excursion to the tropical greenhouse Fata Morgana in Prague Botanical Garden will be the integral part of the course.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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The main goal of the course is to introduce students specific features of flora and vegetation of particular tropical regions of the Earth.
After passing of the course, students would have general knowledge of the significant plant taxa of tropics and differences in its regional distributions. Students should be able to recognise typical tropical plant species including the economic plants, and to classify it into the basic taxa. Furthermore, students would be able to understand better phylogenetic relations of flora in global scale.
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Prerequisites
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Student of the masters degree, who succesfully passed the courses Plant Ecology and Systematic Botany.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Seminar Work
Seminar thesis with its presentation in front of the broader audience.
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Recommended literature
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Corlett R. & Primack R. Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison, Second Edition. 2011, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing..
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Lomolino M. V., Riddle B. R. & Brown J. H. Biogeography. 3rd ed. 2005. Sinauer, Sunderland..
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Morley R. J. Origin and Evolution of Tropical Rain Forests. 2006, John Wiley & Sons, London..
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Whitmore T. C. An introduction to tropical rain forests. 2nd ed. 2003, Oxford University Press, Oxford..
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