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Changes of vegetation composition in hilly country forests depending on the application of historical forms of management
Nechanská, Denisa ; Boublík, Karel (advisor) ; Frouz, Jan (referee)
The aim of my study is to determine the influence of historical management practices on the camposition of vascular species in hilly country forests on the Vysoká stráň hill in the Bohemian Karst Protected Landscape Area in the Czech Republic. My thesis is divided into two parts. The first part of my thesis describes influences of forest management on the herb diversity from different scientific studies. There is some information about the influence of herbivorous grazing, pollarding, litter raking and fire. Secondly provides a case study dealing with the influence of historical management on the vascular species composition in the forest understory. My experimental area was divided into 32 treatments, where three different ways of historical management were used - mowing of the understory vegetation, litter raking and the combination of mowing and litter raking. The fourth area was a control treatment. Change in the herb diversity depending on a time is statistically significant but changes in the herb diversity depending on different ways of historical management are statistically insignificant. We detected a distinct decline in the herb diversity during our experiment, also on the control treatments. The main gradient of vegetation points from mesophilous acidophytes to species characteristic...
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Synantropní flóra a vegetace severozápadního okraje města Brna
Melicharová, Montana
This diploma thesis focuses on the survey of synanthropic flora and vegetation on the northwestern outskirts of the city of Brno. It includes the northwestern part of the Bystrc and Kníničky city districts, the adjacent surroundings of the Brno Reservoir and a substantial part of Mniší hora. The explored area is precisely demarcated by 4 squares corresponding to 1/16 of the basic field of the Central European network mapping (6765CAa+b+c+d). The abundances of the found species were noted and information about their origin and degree of threat was added later. The most important findings include the information about their exact location. Selected specimens of determined, well collected and pressed species are prepared to be stored in a herbarium. The phytosociological plots were sampled to characterize diverse habitat types located in the area. On the whole, I found 522 plant species in the defined area, of which 134 are non-native and 37 species belong to the category of plants with a specific threat level. The most interesting findings are Stachys annua and Anthriscus caucalis belonging to the strongly endangered category (C2 t). There are two more interesting findings that were located on the bridge to the ZOO, Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica, and the expanding Cornus sericea on the bank of the river Svratka. I found overall 25 invasive species, 19 of them are neophytes and 6 of them are archaeophytes. The acquired data will be included to the freely available database of Flora of Brno. A large number of other botanists contribute to this database, who record new, but also the most common plant species that get sometimes overlooked.
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Historický vývoj a vegetační změny nivy dolního úseku řeky Labe
ROTTENBORN, Jan
This work has been divided into two main sections theoretical and research sections. The theoretical section focuses on the bases for the studied issue. It mainly defines a floodplain and wider space of a river and presents development of recognition of processes, which we refer to as vegetation development and dynamics. These range from the theory of plant succession to vegetation succession in view of the significantly distributed environment. And it also shows how a one-sided view of the effect of a river on vegetation with recognition changed only after the biogemorphic approach, when all described parts are mutually related. Today no one will be surprised that vegetation also influences geomorphic processes, such as erosion and sedimentation, and that this view of the issue has been through its own development. The next part of the work presents the monitored territory and characterises natural phenomena, such as geomorphology, geology, hydrology and selected environmental characteristics (potential vegetation, climate, phytocelonology and phytogeography). It also summarises all available botanical data regarding the territory and familiarises the reader with the history and current status of botanical research. The final part of the work presents known changes which have occurred in the floodplain in the recent period (over several centuries). These mainly include changes in the manifestation of the river, indicated by changed oscillation of the water level, adjustments to the river bed and floodplain as such, along with pollution and eutrophisation of the river, a change to generic class (entry of neophytes and plant invasion) and a change to floodplain management. The research section is divided into four parts, which correspond to published or soon-to-be-published articles. The first collects all available data about historical species composition, compares them with the current situation and tries to put them into context with the changes that have occurred and area occurring in the floodplain. The second (and from my point of view crucial) part is based on long-term collection of data at permanent monitoring points. A large number of collected images (more than 700) include a large amount of information about the current composition of vegetation and make it possible to compare year-to-year changes, put them into context with changes in monitored abiotic factors and estimate the frequency of the processes that occur on gravel days. The third part focuses on the Corrigiola litoralis, known by its common name strapwort, which, as has already been stated in the introduction, is a critically endangered species and is also very characteristic for the studied groups. This part attempts if possible to present in the most effective way this species, its biology and changes in its population and to identify potential threats as well as opportunities. The fourth final part attempts to show other options for examination of vegetation changes. It uses the resources of geographical information systems. It presents examples of how the river flow in a relatively short period of time in a "little regulated" part has changed and how vegetation reacts to it. It uses both historical map data and modern aerial shots adjusted to orthophotographs.
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Early vascular plants in the Czech Republic
Uhlířová, Monika ; Kvaček, Jiří (advisor) ; Opluštil, Stanislav (referee)
Vascular plants are characterized as a group of plants, which are already fully adapted to live on the land. Their evolution is a result of a set of adaptations that have required the necessary changes at anatomical and morphological level. Some evidences about the rise of vascular plants appear in the fossil record from the Middle Ordovician in the form of spores and later also from the Early Silurian in the form of megafossils. The aim of the thesis is to briefly describe and discuss the most important published findings of fossils, especially megafossils, of the early vascular plants from the Silurian. Interest is especially focused on published material from the Czech Republic. The thesis also includes more detailed description of the genus Cooksonia, representing the first vascular plants, which are discovered in the megafossil record. Key words: vascular plants, spores, megafossils, Silurian
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Relationship between species diversity, temperature and productivity for native and non-native plant species
Szostoková, Kateřina ; Šímová, Irena (advisor) ; Hejda, Martin (referee)
Latitudinal gradient of diversity is typically being explained by the three main hypotheses: The Resources Limitation Hypothesis, The Speciation Rate Hypothesis and The Niche Conservatism Hypothesis. In my study I tested basic assumptions of these hypotheses using native and non-native vascular plants obtained from the new database GloNAF (Global Naturalized Alien Flora). I tested an effect of precipitation, NPP, temperature and historical velocity (difference in temperature and precipitation between the Last Glacial Maximum and present) on species richness. Given that the distribution of non-native species is among continents irregular (we can divide them into two groups - Australia with Europe and North America and South America with Africa and Asia), I tested the abovementioned relationships at both - global and continental scale. Species richness of native species increased with NPP, precipitation and temperature and decreased with the difference in temperature. The global distribution of non-native plants increased with precipitation and temperature velocity and decreases with temperature and precipitation velocity, although the results varied for particular continents. Unlike other studies the number of non-native species didn't correlate with the number of native plant species. Concurrently...
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Changes of vegetation composition in hilly country forests depending on the application of historical forms of management
Nechanská, Denisa ; Boublík, Karel (advisor) ; Frouz, Jan (referee)
The aim of my study is to determine the influence of historical management practices on the camposition of vascular species in hilly country forests on the Vysoká stráň hill in the Bohemian Karst Protected Landscape Area in the Czech Republic. My thesis is divided into two parts. The first part of my thesis describes influences of forest management on the herb diversity from different scientific studies. There is some information about the influence of herbivorous grazing, pollarding, litter raking and fire. Secondly provides a case study dealing with the influence of historical management on the vascular species composition in the forest understory. My experimental area was divided into 32 treatments, where three different ways of historical management were used - mowing of the understory vegetation, litter raking and the combination of mowing and litter raking. The fourth area was a control treatment. Change in the herb diversity depending on a time is statistically significant but changes in the herb diversity depending on different ways of historical management are statistically insignificant. We detected a distinct decline in the herb diversity during our experiment, also on the control treatments. The main gradient of vegetation points from mesophilous acidophytes to species characteristic...
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The Black and Red lists of the Giant Mountains flora: Do the extinct and endangered plants have common properties?
Blahník, Jan ; Čihař, Martin (referee) ; Krahulec, František (advisor)
A list of extinct and endangered species of the Giant Mountains was published in 2009, which presents a uniform view of vascular plants on the Polish and the Czech sides of the mountains. This Bachelor's Thesis is focused on the most endangered and the extinct species, for which common properties were sought, while it was not clear, whether such properties actually existed. The Bachelor's Thesis evaluates factors that could be traced in literature. Data concerning the type of propagation, which is of key importance for the maintenance of species, however, are not stated in literature for the absolute majority of cases. Easily traceable data concerned the properties of the subsoil, biotope types and properties, life form (was not eventually evaluated), phytogeographic areas, degrees of vegetation and endemism. It cannot be expected that a comparison of the results would show conformity anywhere in the region of 100%, yet certain signs of common properties can be deduced from some results. For example, for one-fifth to one-third of C1 and A1 category species a common property is an acid substrate, 30-40% of C1 category species occur in oreophytic areas, for some 30% of extinct and endangered species, the common sign is their occurrence in meadow sites, 30-40% of critically endangered species occur in...
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Floristic research of an east the Krkonoše Mountains (Czech Republic) springs area (Elbe)
Hronovská, Markéta ; Skalický, Milan (advisor) ; Martinková, Jaroslava (referee)
Floristic research of spring areas in east part of Krkonoše is subject of this bachelor work. It is based on inventorying and localizing local vascular flowers and mosses. Making out some maps made from this analysis is another point of this work.
Inventory of all species was made in August, September and October 2015. It was made by subjective method. Abundance of all species is result of this method.The scale of abundance was appropriately chosen due to capture the abundance of species richness on the monitored areas. The characteristics of the area of interest were processed by literature research.
Totaly 59 vascular plant species and 9 moss species were deterinated in the second part of 2015 growing season. 8 species were classified as endangered of the total number of vascular plant species. Spring of Blue brook and Renner brook were showed the highest species diversity and the greatest amount of vascular plant species was found on the headwater area of Úpa (so colled deliquescent rock). On the contrary, at least vascular plant species were founded on spring of Dry brook and Javoří brook.
Computer program CANOCO 5 and PAST 3. 11 were used to compare localities by means of multivariate RDA analyses with respect to natural conditions.
After studyiung litereture, which relates to the care and protection of non- forest habitats located in protected areas were suggested a specific management for each site.
Discovered information should be valuable for future detailed inventory of these or similar places.
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