list of topics
Plant population ecology
Plant interactions with herbivors
Clonal plants
Plant behaviour and experimental ecology
Pollination ecology
Seed ecology
Plant belowground ecology
Plant-soil feedback
Ecophysiology of plants in tropical and temperate mountains
Plant adaptations and climate change
Evolution of life-forms and diversification
Conservation biology
History and dynamics of vegetation and landscape
Plants and human through ages
Ecosystems and global change
Structure and history of landscape on different scales
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Plant population ecology
Dynamics of plant populations
Plant demography, trade-offs, life history and strategy
Plant invasions, metapopulation dynamic, influence of landscape and climate change
Population models of clonal plants
Population biology of plants with systematic pathogens
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Zuzana Münzbergová, Zdeněk Janovský, Tomáš Dostálek, Tomáš Koubek
Plant interactions with herbivors
How large herbivoures affect vegetation?
Influence of large mammals activity and behaviour on vegetation and plant community.Are they able to influence plant species pool?
How individuals respond to herbivory?
Large herbivours and nature conservation
How insect herbivours affect species population biology?
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Barbora Lepková, Eva Horčičková (velcí herbivoři),
Zdeněk Janovský, Zuzana Münzbergová, Tomáš Dostálek (malí herbivoři)
Clonal plants
Clonality as key functional trait of plant species and individuals
Clonality as ability to send offspring to current position
Clonality and response on disturbance
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Jitka Klimešová, Jana Duchoslavová, Tomáš Herben, Martin Weiser, Tomáš Koubek
Plant behaviour and experimental ecology
Plant behaviour and phenotypic plasticity: how plants respond to their neighbours and changing environment. Alliances, conceits, threats, concessions, aggression and truce in the plant world.
Interactions of plant individuals in multispecies stands: how response to neighbours determines structure of a plant community
Phenotypic plasticity and plant rarity
How plants care about their (clonal) progeny: do they support them or do they use them as extended organs to acquire resources for themselves?
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Martin Weiser, Jana Duchoslavová, Tomáš Herben, Tereza Mašková, Tomáš Koubek
Pollination ecology
How floral traits determine pollinator spectrum (generalist vs. specialist?) and success of pollen transfer?
Do butterflies transfer pollen differently from hoverflies and bees? Comparison of main pollinator groups in behavious and pollen transfer
How plant spatial pattern and co-occurrence of different species determines pollinator behaviour in space? do plants steal pollinators from each other, or do they synergistically help each other by increasing overall attractivity of the stand?
How plant pathogens manipulate growth and phenology of plants and of their pollinators to increase their dispersal
How plants avoind self-pollination – what to do if my neighbour is genetically identical to me as it is a clonal offspring?
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Zdeněk Janovský, Tomáš Koubek, Klára Koupilová
Seed ecology
Seed size and seed nutrient stoichiometry (nitrogen, phosphorus and nonstructural carbon) and thei relationship to the expected conditions of seed germination in the field.
Relationship between seed size, seed stoichiometry and dispersal distances.
Interactions at the seed level: germination in response to presence of other individuals and species. Interspecific differences in seed germiantion and dormancy.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Tereza Mašková, Barbora Lepková, Andrea Veselá, Martin Weiser
Plant belowground ecology
How roots in field respond on their neighbors and patches of nutrients?
Using of molecular methods for detection of roots.
Roots as tubers as nutrient and buds storage organs. How species differ and why?
Root growing in space and time.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Martin Weiser, Tereza Mašková, Tomáš Herben, Jitka Klimešová, Pavlína Knobová
Plant-soil feedback
Plant roots condition the soil in which they grow, either chemically (nutrient availability, root exudates), or biologically (pathogen or symbionts). We aim to determine the role of this phenomenon in the field, namely for interactions between species (competition, mutualism).
The role of plant-soil feedback for plant invasions. Do successful invaders use PSF to suppress their potential competitors? Relative roles of biotic and abiotic components of the PSF for plant invasibility.
Separation of individual components of PSF using molecular and analytical techniques.
PSF as a key factors in primary succession on anthopogenic substrates.
Can PSF be predicted using plant traits? Root decomposition, root exudate production, structure of the root system as candidate traits.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Zuzana Münzbergová, Anna Aldorfová, Eliška Kuťáková, Tomáš Herben
Ecophysiology of plants in tropical and temperate mountains
Ecophysiology of plants in tropic mountains, adaptations for extreme conditions.
Influence of climate seasonality on adaptations, plant traits evolution and species range.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Kontakt: Petr Sklenář
Plant adaptations and climate change
Genetic and epigenetic diversity and plasticity and climate change.
Seedlings development as key factor in adaptations.
Adaptations to climate change - experimental evolution.
How change the relations between plants and other organisms (herbivours, fungi, pollinators...) with climate change and what does it mean for plants.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Adaptace druhů ke klimatickým podmínkám
Contact: Zuzana Münzbergová, Tomáš Dostálek, Andrea Veselá
Evolution of life-forms and diversification
Ecology of parámos, biodiversity and evolution.
Which factors were important for herbs evolution?
What is the difference between herbs and trees? Actually, we still do not know everything!
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Petr Sklenář, Adam Klimeš, Tomáš Herben
Conservation biology
Management of important localities.
Rare species conservation.
Genetic diversity and fitness of rare species and their conservation, gene flow, inbreding and outbreeding depresion.
Rare species recolonization, ex-situ conservation.
Population biology of rare species Minuartia smejkalii.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Zuzana Münzbergová, Jana Knappová, Zdeněk Janovský, Tomáš Dostálek
>History and dynamics of vegetation and landscape
Vegetation succession.
Species composition change in last decades.
Recent vegetation and relationship to the structure in the past.
Vegetation of post-industrial sites.
Vegetation science on larger scale and gradients.
Functional traits of species as factors which led species success in the past - what remains to recent landscape?.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Jan Novák, Adéla Pokorná, Zuzana Münzbergová
Plants and human through ages
Migration of plants and ancient people. Domestication and species evolution.
Where lays the beginning of Anthropocene?
Archeobotany: plant remains and archeological context, botanical identification and co-work with archeologists.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Adéla Pokorná, Jan Novák
Ecosystems and global change
Experimental paleoecology - phytolites, pollen production and others?
How climate change influenced plant communities
Invasions, migrations and local extinctions in long-term scale
Field works, big data analysis, analysis of plant parts in sediments (pollen, macroscopic remains and charcoal) and similar methods, statistical modeling
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Petr Kuneš, Vojtěch Abraham, Alice Moravcová, Kristýna Hošková
Structure and history of landscape on different scales
Changes in community structure in time and effect of climate.
Evaluation of conservation importance of ecosystems.
Origin and history of open habitats in Central Europe and influence of land-use.
Recent topics for bachelor and master thesis:
Contact: Vojtěch Abraham, Jan Novák, Petr Kuneš, Adéla Pokorná
