COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHYTOGEOGRAPHY (PLANT GEOGRAPHY)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYL 5079 PHYTOGEOGRAPHY (PLANT GEOGRAPHY) ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BEHLÜL GÜLER

Offered to

Biology

Course Objective

To determine current and past disturbution of taxonomic categories of plant species, genus and family based on floristic regions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand plant life orund the World as a whole system.
2   To observe natural conditions affects to plants.
3   To assess Botany science in the scope plant geography.
4   To understand plant vegetation and distrubition.
5   To investigate biological diversity and plant genetic resources.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Puposes of Plant Geography course, scope and importance, course programme.
2 Elements of the geographical distribution of plants. Geographical distribution, geographical distribution areas of plants, mapping techniques of distribution areas.
3 Structures of Distribution Areas: Cosmopolitan areas, generational areas, endemic areas, vicarant areas, discontinuous areas.
4 Factors Limiting Distribution Areas: Paleogeographic (Continuous Shift Theory, Land Bridges Theory) factors, paleoclimatological factors. Determination of the origin (gene or origin) center of plant taxa.
5 Historical Factors: The evolution of flora throughout the history of the earth. Turkey's flora in Tertiary and Quaternary period (Mesogens the elements, Arkton-alpine elements, Boreon-alpine elements).
6 Factors Affecting Distribution Areas: Physical factors: Geomorphology, climate, bedrock and soil properties, human pressure. Ecological units: Ecotype or ecological race, ecocline, ecospecies, eco-species.
7 Flora Regions: Flora region and flora element concepts. Holoarchic or Boreal Upper Region
8 Midterm
9 Floristic Regions of Turkey: Siberian Region Europe (Euro-Siberian), Mediterranean Region (Mediterranian), Iran-Turan region (Irano-Turanian).
10 Terrestrial Plant Formations: Calcareous and forest formations (natural calcareous formations, secondary calcareous formations). Maki, garlic, frigana and so on formations.
11 Island biogeography: Biodiversity, speciation and extinction, true islands and habitat islands, islands that are seen as natural laboratories.
12 Macroecology: Investigation of large-scale species distribution and the factors affecting this spread
13 Species distribution modeling. Factors affecting the spread of species and modeling methods related to these factors.
14 Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

C. Barry Cox, Richard J. Ladle, Peter D. Moore. (2019). Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, 10th Edition.
MacArthur, R. H., & Wilson, E. O. (2001). The theory of island biogeography (Vol. 1). Princeton university press.
Gaston, K., & Blackburn, T. (2008). Pattern and process in macroecology. John Wiley & Sons.
Kılınç M., Kutbay G. (2007). Bitki Coğrafyası. Palme Yayınları, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

he course will consist of lectures, class discussions, presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed questions in midterm and final examinations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The students have to continue to the class as 70% in a term.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

behlul.guler@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 6 6 36
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 160

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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