1. Why to study pollinators and their relations to flowering plants. Pollinators funkcion and importance not only in ecosystems. 2. Plants and pollinating - plant clasification in terms of pollinating ways, plant reproduction strategy, pollen propagation mechanisms, flowering plant diversity and evolution 3. What flowers are offering to pollinator? Colour, smell, nectar, pollen, structure, deceptive flowers, evolution and function of deceptive pollinating, rewards to pollinators, thiefs of nectar, ecology of pollinating, pollinating systems, pollinating syndrome. 4. Pollinators - pollinators diversity and evolution, their role in angiosperms evolution, main pollinators groups (bees, bumblebees) taxonomy and fylogenesis, 5. other hymenoptera, butterflies, beatles, flies taxonomy and fylogenesis 6. megabats, birds, other vertebrates taxonomy and fylogenesis 7. Plant and pollinator coevolution, biotic and abiotic factors involved in plant - pollinator relation, pollinating strategies, flower characteristics, specialists and generalists, natural selection and origin of characters as reaction to various pollinator. 8. Ecology of pollinating - feed searching, distance between pollinators and plants, pollen colection and its strategy, flower tagging, comunication of pollinators, pollinators and plant societies, plant phenology. 9. Pollinators in agriculture - importance of pollinators, entomogamous and anemogamous crops, key pollinators, agricultural important pollinators research, keeping of natural pollinators in ecosystem methods 10. Pollinators in agriculture - commercial services: bees, bumblebees, people and pollinators relation, 11. Honey - bearing plants, plants as a source of pollen, plants as a source of nectar, 12. pollinators protection, pollinators disappearing and extinction reasons and its factors - landscape fragmentation, climate changes, pesticides, pathogens, parazites, colony colaps disease, extinction of bumblebees and natural pollinators.
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The aim of the course is to make acquaintance of pollination by animals with focus on plant and polinators diversity, pollinator - plant relationships evolution and ecology, pollinating process mutualism and diversity, pollinators role in ecosystems and agriculture, population decreasing factors and its support and protection strategy. However subject adds subject Včelařství (Beekeeping) it does not focus on production and bee products but on pollinating ecology, ways of landscape formation and preservation in condition suitable for wild and bred pollinators survive. Students will get to know different pollinator species and their environmental requirements to avoid bee, bumblebee and other pollinator population number decrease under antropogenic factors presure (pesticides, climate changes, lanscape changes) and related rate of pollinator dependent plant and crop pollinating.
Students know pollinators role in nature and agriculture, their major groups taxonomy and their protection strategy
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