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BIYL5950 | Population Ecology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | Level of Course | Second Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Lab work , Practical | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Bilal KUTRUP | Co-Lecturer | Dr. Ufuk BULBUL | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | The course aims to give the students the growth and structures of population, biological and environmental factors effect the population. Sampling methods ( random, stratified, re-capture, systematic) for determining the growth of the population and interaction among -between population |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | understand of the structures of the amphibian populations. | 1,3,5 | 1,3,5, | PO - 2 : | aware of the biological and ecological factors effect the amphibians populations and ecosystem.
| 1,3,5 | 1,3,5, | PO - 3 : | know how do sampling of populations.
| 1,3,5 | 1,3,4, | PO - 4 : | check the structures of populations.
| 1,3,5 | 1,3,5, | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | |
Population and growth. Structures of populations. Sampling methods. Random, stratified, re-capture, systematic, interaction among -between populations |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Introduction: Population systems and their components
What is population ecology?
| | Week 2 | Models as analytical tools , Population system
| | Week 3 | Estimation of population density and size.
Censusing a Whole Population
| | Week 4 | Simple Random or Systematic Sampling
How Many Samples?
| | Week 5 | Stratified Sampling
Capture-Recapture and Removal Methods
| | Week 6 | Tree Types of Spatial Distribution
Random Distribution
| | Week 7 | Statistical analysis of population dynamics.
Correlation between population density and various factors
| | Week 8 | Correlation between factors | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | Week 10 | Reproducing populations: exponential and logistic growth.
Exponential model
Logistic model
| | Week 11 | Life-tables, k-values.
Age-dependent life-tables
Stage-dependent life-tables | | Week 12 | Seminar
| | Week 13 | Seminar | | Week 14 | Seminar | | Week 15 | Aplication of marck methods in the diffrent kinds of animals | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Lary and Rockwood, 2006 İntroduction to population ecology, Black well publications, USA | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | 18/14/2024 | 1 | 30 | Presentation | 11 12 | | 2 2
| 20 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 19/06/2024 | 1 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | Laboratuar çalışması | 2 | 6 | 12 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 7 | 21 | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ödev | 4 | 10 | 40 | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 10 | 30 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | Diğer 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | Diğer 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | Total work load | | | 225 |
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