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Selected chapters from tropical plant ecology - MB120P52
Title: Kapitoly z tropické ekologie rostlin
Czech title: Kapitoly z tropické ekologie rostlin
Guaranteed by: Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2013
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Petr Sklenář, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Last update: PETR (08.03.2007)
The course treats selected topics of plant ecology of tropical rain forests and tropical alpine ecosytems. The lectures deal with (i) historical and current aspects of diversity of tropical ecosystems, (ii) tropical plant life forms and adaptations, (iii) interactions among plants and animals. During the seminar selected topics of tropical plant ecology are discussed.
Literature - Czech
Last update: PETR (08.03.2007)

Hallé F, R. A. A. Oldeman & P. B. Tomlinson. 1978. Tropical Trees and Forests. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Chazdon R. L. & T. C. Whitmore. 2002. Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Losos E. C. & E. G. Leigh, Jr. (eds.). 2004. Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Lüttge U. Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Richards P. W. 1996. The Tropical Rain Forest. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

Whitmore T. C. 1998. An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forest. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Balslev H. & J. L. Luteyn (eds.). 1992. Páramo. An Andean Ecosystem under Human Influence. Academic Press. London.

Hedberg O. 1964. Features of Afroalpine plant ecology. Acta Phytogeor. Suec. 49: 1–144.

Rundel P. W., A. P. Smith & F. C. Meinzer (eds.). 1994. Tropical Alpine Environments. Plant form and function. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

Vuilleumier F. & M. Monasterio (eds.). 1986. High Altitude Tropical Biogeography. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Sklenář, Ph.D. (30.11.2011)

Zkouška je formou diskuse k tématu vypracovaného eseje.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Sklenář, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

A) Tropical rain forest

1. History of exploration, formation types, biogeography, climate, soils (brief review of topics). 

2. Diversity of species, forms, patterns of diversity, paleohistory of rain forest.

3. Structure and physiognomy of tropical rain forest communities, microclimate, sukcesion (gap phase dynamics), pioneer and klimax species.

4. Phanerophytes - ecology, growth, life histories.

5. Population dynamics and community ecology.

6. Reproduction biology of tropical plants, interactions.

7. Canopy ecology, epiphyte ecology.

8. Conservation.

 

B) Montane and alpine vegetation

1. Climate, geography.

2. Diversity, plant communities, life forms, history, biogeography.

3. Plant ecology, adaptations.

4. Upper tree line, human impact.

Entry requirements - Czech
Last update: PETR (08.03.2007)

Terestrické ekosystémy

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