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Monitoring of the flowering time of selected arable weed species
Suran, Pavel ; Holec, Josef (advisor) ; Kolářová, Michaela (referee)
Flowers have an irreplaceable role in a sexual reproduction of plants. Flowers also offer the nutrients to high ammount of the insect species, both pollinators and parasitoid imagos. These insect species are depending on a beginning and a lenght of the plant flowering period and some are depending as well on a plant species diversity. Therefor it is important to monitor a flowering time of individual weed species.
The phase of the plant flowering is started, as well as by other things, by a certain temperature and a humidity. Some species might require a different value of these parameters. The beginning and the lenght of the weed flowering should correlate with a development of the temperature and the humidity during the observation period. This monitoring period was the year of 2015 and observed area was the Demontrational and experimentational land of the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources of the Czech University of Life Science in Prague. During the observation period, the plant flowering times of the individual weed species were recorded on a weekly basis. In this study, the beginning and the end of the plant flowering time were evaluated for every weed species, that were observed on the observed area. Several of the observed species registered a pause in the flowering time, this pause was also evaluated. It was found out, that most of the species, that start flowering in the spring, started flowering roughly one or two months earlier. The plants capable of flowering during a moderate freezes flowered untill the very late autumn or even during november. The plant species, that start thein flowering in the summer were not affected by an increase in the temperature of the first months, but they were affected by the very high summer temperatures and these species stopped flowering and they either never flowered again, or they started flowring, once the temperature dropped.
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