Flora and vegetation of Ukraine

Course: BIOLOGY (Master) PART-TIME

Structural unit: Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center

Title
Flora and vegetation of Ukraine
Code
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
PR2. Use libraries, information databases, Internet resources to search for the necessary information. PR5. Analyze and evaluate the impact of biology on the development of society. PPl4. Adhere to the norms of academic integrity in the study and conduct of scientific activities, know the basic legal norms for the protection of intellectual property. PP16. Critically comprehend theories, principles, methods from different branches of biology to solve practical problems and problems.
Form of study
External form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Know - the basics of morphology, anatomy, plant physiology, phytocenology, ecology in the framework of normative, special disciplines and field practices taught in previous years of study. 2. To use - to be able to identify botanical and mycological objects in the volume determined by normative and special disciplines taught in previous years of study. 3. To have basic skills to carry out morphological description of a plant or fungus, to analyze data of geobotanical descriptions and prodromes of vegetation, to have basic skills of using keys to identify taxa of different ranks.
Course content
Discipline "Flora and Vegetation of Ukraine" with a component of the cycle of free choice of students. The discipline is a basic botanical discipline, which is most consistent with the concept of phytodiversity and differentiation of plant superorganisms as a material for comprehensive botanical research and subsequent generalizations about the state of ecosystems in different regions of Ukraine. The discipline covers the issues of structural analysis of flora, application of statistical methods of data processing of floristic research, features of formation of aboriginal and adventitious fractions of flora and urban flora, diversity and general and special structural and functional features of plant groups.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Mosyakin SL, Fedoronchuk MM Vascular Plants of Ukraine. A Nomenclatural Checklist. - Kiev, 1999. - 345 p. 2. Giropa IM, Solomakha VA Vegetation of Ukraine. - Kyiv: Phytosocial Center, 2005. 3. Ecoflora of Ukraine. Volumes 1-6.- K: Phytosociocenter, 2000-2010. 4. Zaverukha BV Flora of Volyn-Podolia and its genesis. - Kyiv: Nauk. opinion, 1985. - 192 p. 5. Lukat OV Flora of vascular plants of Eastern Polissya: structure and dynamics. - Kyiv: Phytosocial Center, 2009. - 200 p. 6. Novosad VV Flora of the Kerch-Taman region. - Kyiv: Nauk. opinion, 1992. - P.44- 57.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, laboratory work, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Modular tests 2. Evaluation of laboratory work 3. Presentations and reports - final assessment in the form of a credit
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Oksana Vasylivna Tyshchenko
Department of Plant Biology
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Plant Biology
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center