Department of Botany and Zoology

Department of Botany and Zoology is a part of Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Czech Republic. The Department originated in 2006 by joining of Departmet of Zoology and Ecology, Department of Botany. Since 2002, the Department of Botany and Zoology is a part of the Centre for Applied Plant Ecology, a corporate unit of Masaryk University in Brno and the Brno branch of the Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The department provides education in the basic courses for Bachelor programme Biology, Master programme Biology, specializations Systematic Biology and Ecology and Teacher Training in Biology, Doctoral programme Biology, specializations Botany, Ecology, Hydrobiology, Parasitology and Zoology.

Basic courses cover the areas of systematics and evolution of organisms, ecology, biogeography, methods of various biological and ecological disciplines, and didactics of biology. External teachers from the Czech Academy of Sciences and other universities teach some of these courses. An integral part of teaching is determination exercises and field excursions in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Research activities of the Institute include:

• Systematics of vascular plants
• Vegetation science
• Mire ecology
• Terrestrial vertebrates
• Hydrobiology
• Vertebratology
• Parasitology

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Datum aktualizace: 28.10.2012