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| YHEL5063 | Wildlife Carrying Capacity | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WILDLIFE ECOLOGY and MANAGEMENT | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Şağdan BAŞKAYA | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Şağdan BAŞKAYA,
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Alptuğ SARI,
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ahmet ARPACIK | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Semantic comprehension and measurement of carrying capacity in wildlife.
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Learn the concept of carrying capacity
| 2,4,6 | 1,5 | | PO - 2 : | Know the factors that constitute the carrying capacity
| 2,4,6 | 1,5 | | PO - 3 : | Learn growth models
| 2,4,6 | 1,5 | | PO - 4 : | Can generate growth graph
| 2,4,6 | 1,5 | | PO - 5 : | Carrying capacity measurement
| 2,4,6 | 1,5 | | 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 | | |
| Dynamics of wildlife populations, Birth, death, migration, competition, predators, biotic potential, Environmental resistance, Demography and population growth, Population growth factors, Growth models, Modeling of factors affecting growth, Population fluctuations, Population loops, Determination of bearing capacity
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Transport capacity concept
| | | Week 2 | Carrying capacity elements
| | | Week 3 | Dynamics of wildlife populations
| | | Week 4 | Birth, death, migration
| | | Week 5 | Factors such as competition, predatory
| | | Week 6 | Biotic potential
| | | Week 7 | Environmental resistance
| | | Week 8 | Technological developments
| | | Week 9 | Mid-Term Exam | | | Week 10 | Growth models, modeling of factors affecting growth
| | | Week 11 | Population fluctuations, Population loops
| | | Week 12 | Determination of carrying capacity
| | | Week 13 | Demography and population growth, Population growth factors | | | Week 14 | Evaluation of innovative methods
| | | Week 15 | Students presantations | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Moen, Aaron N. Wildlife ecology. San Francisco: Freeman, 1973. | | | |
| 1 | Carpenter, Len H., Daniel J. Decker, and James F. Lipscomb. "Stakeholder acceptance capacity in wildlife management." Human Dimensions of Wildlife 5.3 (2000): 5-19. | | | 2 | Decker, Daniel J., and Ken G. Purdy. "Toward a concept of wildlife acceptance capacity in wildlife management." Wildlife Society Bulletin (1973-2006) 16.1 (1988): 53-57. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 30 | | Presentation | 15 | | 15 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 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 | 10 | 40 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 10 | 4 | 40 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 5 | 20 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 8 | 10 | 80 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 2 | 3 | 6 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 6 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 211 |
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