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Bryology - MB120P187

Title:	Bryologie
Czech title:	Bryologie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty:	Faculty of Science
Actual:	from 2023 to 2023
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	6
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:3/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity:	15
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Additional information:	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Of98tcxvWII_uwL0-x2DLV6rNgMbKe6N
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	Mgr. Lukáš Janošík Mgr. Matěj Man Mgr. Anna Růžičková

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Annotation -

Last update: RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (03.01.2024)

This course will provide you with detailed information on bryophytes (liverworts, hornoworts, mosses). The course is organized as a "workshop" in which the theoretical part is combined with the practical part. The course is not traditionally divided into lecture and practicum.

We will focus on the morphology, phylogeny, physiology and biogeography of bryophytes. We will look at the main groups of bryophytes and get a detailed introduction to the major families and genera of the Central European bryoflora. We will also touch on the history of the discipline in the world and in our country, get introduced to the basic bryological literature, and review the main disciplinary impact journals and some of the current bryological departments. There will be two special sessions: 1) a "journal club", where we will study together several selected articles from the field and discuss them afterwards; 2) a half-day bryological excursion to the surroundings of Prague.

Ecology will take a back seat in this course in favour of "Ecology of bryophytes and lichens - MB120P64".

It is recommended that you first take the course "Botany of nonvascular plants" before enrolling in this "Bryology" course.

Literature -

Last update: RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (03.01.2024)

Goffinet B., Shaw A.J., eds. Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Vanderpoorten A. Introduction to Bryophytes. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (03.01.2024)

Credit:

    Attendance at 9 out of 12 lessons

    a mid-term morphology test at approximately the halfway point of the semester, with at least 50% correct answers

    identification test at the end of the semester of 15 organisms, assign at least 8 to an order, genus or species

Exam:

    Oral exam at the end of the semester - 4 questions/circles according to lecture topics: morphology, system and evolution, physiology, biogeography

Syllabus -

Last update: RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (03.01.2024)

1)Introduction, history, resources, habitats
2) Anatomy, morphology: liverworts and hornworts
3) Anatomy, morphology: mosses
4) Biogeography, species conservation
5) Journal club
6) System and evolution: Anthocerotophyta, Marchantiophyta I.
7) System and evolution: Marchantiophyta II.
8) System and evolution: Bryophyta I.
9) System and evolution: Bryophyta II.
10) Physiology, adaptation
11) Substrate ecology, methods of study
12) Excursion