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The course includes basic knowledge from about biology of bryophytes and an overview of the system of bryophytes, liverworts and mosses and their phylogeny. It also deals with the following topics: the development of bryology as a part of science - an outline of the history , general bryological literature, journals.
Methods of studying bryophytes (classical, experimental), biosystematics. Detailed anatomy and morphology of liverworts, hornworts and mosses.
Ultrastructure, ecological adaptations, ontogeny, evolutionary biology, cytology, cytogenetics, chemotaxonomy and other branches of the study of bryophytes. Phytogeography of bryophytes - ranges, distribution, etc.
Cultivation of bryophytes. Applied bryology - importance of bryophytes, historical and contemporary systems - principles, overview.
Systematic overview taxonomy - classes, orders and selected families of individual groups of liverworts, bryophytes and mosses - characteristics, occurrence, distribution and main representatives with regard to the European flora.