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Paleoecology of the Turonian Ostracoda from the Úpohlavy section
Houdková, Markéta ; Kyška Pipík, Radovan (advisor) ; Seko, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with the class Ostracoda from the Úpohlavy quarry, which is an important paleontological site of the Turonian in the Czech Cretaceous Basin with abundant and well- preserved fauna. Twenty samples from marls and limestones of Jizera and Teplice formation were colected in which 36 marine middle and upper Turonian ostracods species were identified. Ostracods of the studied profile are characterized by gradual increase of species richness and decline of dominance of Cytherella cf. ovata (Roemer, 1840). The lowest diversity is in the Jizera formation and the highest diversity in the Teplice formation. The order Platycopida prevails on the order Podocopida in the Jizera formation, in which percentages of Platycopida is in the range 67-89%, while its percentage in the Teplice formatiion is lower in the range 25-59 %. Using the Platycopida Signal Hypothesis in a sense of Whatley et al. (2003), which compares percentages of Platycopida and Podocopida, a low O2 content in Jizera formation and in the Coprolite bed (monotonous dark marls) of Teplice formation is supposed. This is in accordance with low number of species (5-11 per sample) and with higher TOC content (0.34-0.74 %). With the beginning of limestone and marl sedimentation of the Teplice formation a number of species increases...
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Paleoecology of the Turonian Ostracoda from the Úpohlavy section
Houdková, Markéta ; Kyška Pipík, Radovan (advisor) ; Seko, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with the class Ostracoda from the Úpohlavy quarry, which is an important paleontological site of the Turonian in the Czech Cretaceous Basin with abundant and well- preserved fauna. Twenty samples from marls and limestones of Jizera and Teplice formation were colected in which 36 marine middle and upper Turonian ostracods species were identified. Ostracods of the studied profile are characterized by gradual increase of species richness and decline of dominance of Cytherella cf. ovata (Roemer, 1840). The lowest diversity is in the Jizera formation and the highest diversity in the Teplice formation. The order Platycopida prevails on the order Podocopida in the Jizera formation, in which percentages of Platycopida is in the range 67-89%, while its percentage in the Teplice formatiion is lower in the range 25-59 %. Using the Platycopida Signal Hypothesis in a sense of Whatley et al. (2003), which compares percentages of Platycopida and Podocopida, a low O2 content in Jizera formation and in the Coprolite bed (monotonous dark marls) of Teplice formation is supposed. This is in accordance with low number of species (5-11 per sample) and with higher TOC content (0.34-0.74 %). With the beginning of limestone and marl sedimentation of the Teplice formation a number of species increases...
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Ostracods from the Czech Creatacous Basin - current state of knowledge and revision of prof. Pokorny collection
Houdková, Markéta ; Pipík, Radovan (advisor) ; Seko, Michal (referee)
The class Ostracoda is a group of microfossils, which is important in cases where other leading fossils are missing. In the paleontological record Ostracods show ecological and paleogeographic conditions or may help determine the age of the sediment. Professor Vladimír Pokorný dealt with Ostracods in the Czech Cretaceous Basin. The main result of this work is a summary of his articles about that. The subclass Podocopa is the most common group. For ostracod determination is necessary detailed knowledge of the morphology and ornamentation of the carapace, so part of the work is about these characters. Key words: Ostracoda, Cretaceous, Czech Cretaceous Basin
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Plants traditionally used in the Czech Republic for their antimicrobial properties: An overview and comparison with scientific studies
Ježková, Pavlína ; Nový, Pavel (advisor) ; Houdková, Markéta (referee)
The use of plants in medicine and folk medicine is probably as old as humanity itself. Medicinal plants have accompanied human throughout the stages of its historical development and herbs were the first medicines which human met. Healing herbs were the most accessible and often only therapeutic agent.
In the first part of the thesis, the information about the history of medicinal plants, natural method of therapy, phytotherapy, biologically active substances of plant and about antimicrobial agents are summarized. Some specific cases of plants with antimicrobial activity are also listed.
The second part presents data obtained by comparing data on the traditional use of plants for their antimicrobial activity in folk medicine to scientific data available from the Web of Science database. The traditional use of plants was investigated according to data from the most comprehensive Czech herbarium of medicinal plants from Jiří Janča and Josef Antonín Zentrich. From a total of 363 plants, 207 species whith presumable antimicrobial activity were selected from the herbarium,. For these plants were subsequently searched and evaluated all records from scientific databases mentioning their antimicrobial activity.Sbsequently, all records on these species mentioning their antimicrobial activity were searched on the scientific database and evaluated.
After the comparison and evaluation of the data gathered about the initial 207 species, 31 plants, which should exhibit antimicrobial effects according to the aforementioned herbals but scientific records are confirmed unsatisfactorily or not at all, were selected. This group of plants can serve as the basis for future research to confirm or refute their antimicrobial activity.
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