Content of lectures: 1. Mountains. Origin by: folding, volcanic, erosion. Influence of age. Characteristics of vegetation: stratification, precipitation shadow, border of alpine zone, dependence to mountain size. Strategy of survive of plants, limits of their occurrence. 2. Lakes. Origin: glacial, volcanic, termokartic, karstic, meteorite. Fishpond-reservoir-lake-pool. Stratification: dimictic, monomictic, amictic, polymictic, polar, dystrophic, pools and back waters. Lakes as archives for paleolimnology. Acidification: trends and results. Species richness. Lake Černé: Plankton, benthos, Isoetes, history.3. Rivers. River continuum. Movement of water and consequences for survive strategy, nutrition. Brooks. Benthos, potamon, hyporheos. Principal groups of algae.4.Cryoseston. Definition, occurrence limits, survival strategy, function of cryoseston in polar regions. Algal cryoseston.5. Bogs. Classification and origin. Characteristics of environment. Torfobiont flora and algae. Paleoecology. Red peat bog.6. Tepuis. Origin, flora. Island phenomenon.7. Arctic and Antarctis. Characteristics of polar regions, oasis, endolithic algae, terraforming of Mars. Cryoseston, glacial brooks, paleoecology, core from Antarctic glacial, long-term changes of Earth.8. Adaptation and aclimation, ontogeny, speciation, geographic isolation, chorology, polyploidisation, flowering, pollination. Strategy survival of plants on non-stabile substrata, growth rates. Organisms at frontier of life.9.Laboratory models. Gradients, extreme conditions modelling in laboratory devices. Temperature, light, nutrients.10. Collecting. Methods of collecting and studying of algae in mountains. Content of practices: Microscoping and determination of samples. Laboratory devices, anatomical age and growth analyses.
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