COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POPULATION DYNAMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CDK 6014 POPULATION DYNAMICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KEMAL CAN BIZSEL

Offered to

MARINE LIVING RESOURCES

Course Objective

The course is based on theoretical lectures and two presentations to be prepared by students during the term. The main purpose is to provide students basic principles of population dynamic of selected marine organisms representing each trophic level in a marine ecosystem, by emphasizing the major differences in their dynamics and their reasonings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The principles of population dynamics in marine organisms
2   Dynamics of phytoplankton population
3   Dynamics of zooplankton population
4   Dynamics of sessile invertabrate populations
5   Dynamics of sedentary invertebrate population
6   Dynamics of fish populations
7   Dynamics of marine reptiles and mammals

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basics of Population dynamics: Growth, Reproduction and Mortality
2 Significance of a larval phase for the ecology and management of animal populations
3 Early life history strategies: planktotrophy, lecithotrophy, abbreviated development, direct development
4 Metapopulations and mortality
5 Population models: Ricker and Roughgarden types
6 Presentation I
7 Recruitment
8 The control of horizontal larval dispersal
9 Behaviour: tactical and kinetic responses, internal clocks
10 Regulation of the dynamics of marine populations and communities
11 Reproduction
12 Mortality
13 General models
14 Presentation II

Recomended or Required Reading

Sparre, P and Venema, S. C. (1988). Introduction to Tropical Fish Stock Assessment - Part 1: Manual. FAO FISHERIES TECHNICAL PAPER 306/1 Rev. 2.
Gessler, D. (2003). Population Dynamics, Marine Community Ecology, and Oceanography of Marine Microbes
Jonathan Roughgarden, J, Iwasa, Y. and C. Baxter (1985). Demographic Theory For An Open Marine Population With Space-Limited Recruıtment, Ecology, 66(1), pp. 54-67


Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course has core section focusing on the main components that drives dynamics of population. On the basis of this core section, the population dynamics of selected organisms representing each trophic level and/or habitat will be addressed by a comparative approach. The theoretical part is based on lectures addressing the ecological concepts and mechanisms underpinning the different subjects, followed by discussions of previously distributed papers (or papers independently searched by the students), emphasising the basic processes, the adaptations, the evolutionary implications and the research methodologies. Students will prepare, present and discuss two presentations on the selected topics.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS 1 PRESENTATION 1
2 PRS 2 PRESENTATION 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS 1 * 0.20 + PRS 2 * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS 1 * 0.20 + PRS 2 * 0.20 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Presentations 2 2 4
Preperation of presentations 2 36 72
Preperation before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Reading 1 12 12
Final exam 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 164

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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