COURSE UNIT TITLE

: VEJETATION ECOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYL 5078 VEJETATION ECOLOGY 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

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BEHLÜL GÜLER

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biology
Biology

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to understand the relationship between plant communities in terrestrial ecosystems and their environment. Vegetation Ecology covers topics such as Vegetation, synecology, Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Phytosociology, Plant Sociology, Numerical Ecology and covers different systems from populations to ecosystems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to understand the structure of plant communities in biological sciences
2   To be able to understand vegetation knowledge and natural resource management
3   To be able to understand the relationship between vegetation and environment
4   To be able to understand vegetation analysis methods
5   To be able to understand plant community ecology

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The aim, scope and importance of vegetation knowledge course; content of the course
2 Plant association, formation of association, naming of associations
3 Vegetation sampling methods, sampling areas
4 Types of vegetation. Plant formations
5 Distinctive characteristics of vegetation, structural features, abundance overlap values, physiomic properties
6 Unifying properties of vegetation, presence, minimal area, loyalty, homogeneity and heterogeneity
7 Succession, stages of succession and climax, primary and secondary succession
8 Midterm
9 Vegetation structure of Turkey: Phytogeographic regions, vegetation layers of different vegetation types, classes, orders, and / or wedding ring at the level of classification
10 Composition and species diversity of plant communities
11 Landscape Ecology: Definition and basic concepts. Elements of landscape. Ecotons and their biological values. Changes in landscape in the context of time and space.
12 Syntaxonomy: International syntaxonomy naming code (Zurich - Montpellier school). Characteristic and distinctive species concepts. Nomenclature of plant associations.
13 Vegetation ecology, numerical analysis methods, multivariate analysis
14 Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Wildi, O. (2017). Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology. CABI.
Van der Maarel, E., Franklin, J. (Eds.). (2012). Vegetation ecology. John Wiley & Sons.
Akman Y., Ketenoğlu O., Kurt F. (2015).Vejetasyon Ekolojisi ve Araştırma Metodları. Palme Yayınları, Ankara.
Kılınç M. (2012). Bitki Sosyolojisi (Vejetasyon Bilimi). Palme Yayınları, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The 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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LO.145345315553
LO.234434424544
LO.345552515555
LO.443144445343
LO.554525524254

CONTACT INFORMATION
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