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Biogeography - MB170P01
Title: Biogeografie
Czech title: Biogeografie
Guaranteed by: Department of Zoology (31-170)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: RNDr. Radek Lučan, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Roman Fuchs, CSc.
prof. RNDr. Pavel Hulva, Ph.D.
RNDr. Radek Lučan, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MB120P38, MB170P82
Is incompatible with: MB120P38, MB170P82
Annotation -
Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there
are at least 3 students. Topics and methods in contemporary biogeography. Geography of global biodiversity. Comparative
areography, historical and ecological biogeography, dispersionalism vs. vicariance model, phylogenetics and vicariance
analysis, island biogeography, genetic and morphological geographic variation, molecular phylogegraphy, analytical
biogeography, basic background to biogeographic interpretations: climate, climatic history, glacial cycles, continental drift
and global tectonics. Panbiogeography.


Last update: JPROKOP (12.06.2007)
Literature -

Brown JH a Lomolimo MV 2005: Biogeography. 3rd Ed. Sinauer Ass.Publ., Sunderland

Avise JC 2000: Phylogeography. Harvard Univ. London.

Cox CB a Moore PD 1993: Biogeography. An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach. Blackwell.

Horáček I, Mladý F: Biogeografie in Rosypal et al. 2002: Přehled biologie 2000. Scientia, Praha.

Whittaker RL, Fernández-Palacios JM 2006: Island Biogeography. Ecology, evolution and conservation. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Wilson EO 1995: Rozmanitost života. LN Praha

Last update: JPROKOP (12.06.2007)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Podmínkou pro úspěšné složení zkoušky je vypracování eseje na témata zadaná v průběhu semestru a složení ústní nebo písemné zkoušky, což obnáší znalost látky v rozsahu přednášek a studia doporučené literatury. 

Last update: Lučan Radek, RNDr., Ph.D. (08.10.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction. Story of the biogeography and its modern setting. Basic concepts and terms (biota, range, endemism, vicariance, chorology etc.). Ecological vs. historical biogeography.

2. The planetary context: background concepts of the ecological biogeography. Marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats and their biota. Climate: structure, classification geography, climatic and vegetation zones. Survey of major biomes of the World.

3. Earth history: traditional concepts vs. continental drift. Global tectonics, lithospheric plates. History of Mesozoic and Caenozoic crustal rearranegements in details. Biogeographic and climatic consequences. Panbiogeography.

4. Biogeographic regions of the World, history and specificities of their biota. Hot spots of global biodiversity.

5. Comparative study of ranges: chorology vs. areography. Dynamics biogeography, range expansions, regressions, extinctions. Vagility, dispersal. Range sizes, special-area relations. Macroecology.

6. Island biogeography. Biota of islands: specificities, case examples. MAcArthur and Wilson: equilibrium theory and its extended application in terrestrial realm. Caves and cave ecosystems.

7. Structure of a range: continuity vs, discontinuity of gene flows. Aspects of phenotypic and genotypics geographic variation. geography of speciation dynamics. Clinal vs. categorial variation. Character displacement. Hybridisation, hybrid zones. Biogeography of multigenomic (Renner´s) complexes.

8. Vacariance and cladistic biogeographies: principles, concepts, methods. Molecular phylogeography, mt DNA as a source of phylogeographic information, coalescence analysis. Current examples.

9. The Quaternary history of biota. Course of a glacial cycles, specificities of the Holocene, Neolithic revolution and changes in community strcutures. Fossil record vs phylogeographic reconstructions.

10. Biota of the Western Palearctic and Central Europe: index patterns of their ecological and historical biogeography, current topics and problems.

Last update: JPROKOP (12.06.2007)
 
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