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Bryology - MB120P187E

Title:	Bryology
Czech title:	Bryologie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty:	Faculty of Science
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	6
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:3/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity:	6
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Explanation:	not running in 2023/24 academic year, only Czech version
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D.

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Last update: Mgr. Michal Štefánek (25.05.2023)

The course includes basic knowledge from about biology of bryophytes and an overview of the system of
bryophytes, liverworts and mosses and their phylogeny. It also deals with the following topics: the development of
bryology as a part of science - an outline of the history , general bryological literature, journals. Methods of studying
bryophytes (classical, experimental), biosystematics. Detailed anatomy and morphology of liverworts, hornworts
and mosses. Ultrastructure, ecological adaptations, ontogeny, evolutionary biology, cytology, cytogenetics,
chemotaxonomy and other branches of the study of bryophytes. Phytogeography of bryophytes - ranges,
distribution, etc. Cultivation of bryophytes. Applied bryology - importance of bryophytes, historical and contemporary
systems - principles, overview. Systematic overview taxonomy - classes, orders and selected families of individual
groups of liverworts, bryophytes and mosses - characteristics, occurrence, distribution and main representatives
with regard to the European flora.