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Lecturer(s)
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Kučera Jan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Contents of lectures: 1. Basic bryological literature, journals, www pages. 2. Delimitation of bryophytes (Bryophyta s. l.), their position among the plants in general. Liverworts, general characteristics and basal groups. 3. Liverwort of the subclasses Pelliidae a Metzgeriidae (thallose liverworts). 4. Liverwort of the subclassJungermanniidae (foliose liverworts). 5. General characterics of mosses, basal groups (Sphagnopsida and Andreaeopsida). 6. Nemetodontous mosses classes Polytrichopsida and Tetraphidopsida. 7. Mosses of the class Bryopsida except pleurocarps. 8. Pleurocarpous mosses (Hypnidae). Hornworts (Anthocerotopsida). 9. Growth and life forms. Life strategies of mosses. 10. Physiology of bryophytes. Responses to the air pollution, bioindication. 11. Ecophysiological adaptations of bryophytes. . Substratum ecology. Bryophytes in Earth's biomes. 12. Coexistence and competition. Reproductive biology of bryophytes. Phytogeographical problems related to the Earth history. Content of practicals: Practical demonstration of the most important representatives of the particular bryophyte groups.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Monitoring, Laboratory
- Preparation for credit
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 60 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for classes
- 36 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course supplements the course Systematics of Higher Plants in its part devoted to the bryophytes. It provides a brief outline of morphology, anatomy, systematics, phylogeny and ecology of all bryophyte groups and their relations to other groups of organisms. The bryophyte groups referred to in the lectures are demonstrated in the practicals, the attention is in particular paid to the characters important for practical identification.
Alumni of the course have a general knowledge of phylogeny, morphology & anatomy, ecophysiology and phytogeographic connections of all major bryophyte groups.
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Prerequisites
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Recommended underlying course Botany of Higher plants V-I (KBO/138) or M (KBO/132).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination
passing of the oral exam (correct answers to at least 2/3 of questions)
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Recommended literature
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Goffinet B., Shaw A.J., eds. Bryophyte Biology, 2nd ed.. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Schofield W. B. Introduction to bryology. Macmillan, New York, 1985.
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Vanderpoorten A. Introduction to Bryophytes. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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