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| ORM5080 | Amelioration of Degraded Forests | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ercan OKTAN | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Zeki YAHYAOĞLU | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge of productive and degraded forest areas, to enable them to define stand structures, to help them use their knowledge to analyze the silvicultural systems for transforming degraded forests into productive areas. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | summarize degraded and productive forests | 3,8,10 | 1,3 | | PO - 2 : | describe and compare necessary silvicultural systems | 1,2,3,9 | 1,3,5 | | PO - 3 : | prepare silvicultural plans for transforming degraded forests into productive areas. | 1,3,8,9 | 1,5,6 | | 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 | | |
| General information about productive and unproductive forest composed by main and secondary forest species in Turkey. Stand structure of productive (fruitful) and unproductive forest. The techniques of conversion from unproductive to productive forest. The tree breeding of unproductive selection forest. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | General informations and definitions, Distributions of productive and unproductive forests in Turkiye | | | Week 2 | Regional distributions of productive and unproductive forest formed by primary and secondary species | | | Week 3 | Regional distributions of productive and unproductive forest formed by primary and secondary species | | | Week 4 | Evolutions and stand structure of productive and unproductive forests | | | Week 5 | Evolutions and stand structure of productive and unproductive forests | | | Week 6 | Evolutions and stand structure of productive and unproductive forests | | | Week 7 | Conversion techniques of unproductive forests to productive forests | | | Week 8 | Conversion techniques of unproductive forests to productive forests | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Conversion techniques of unproductive forests to productive forests | | | Week 11 | Ameliorations of degraded selective forests | | | Week 12 | Fundamentals of project preparation related with unproductive forest ameliorations | | | Week 13 | Prosecution and control of semester studies | | | Week 14 | Fundamentals of project preparation related with unproductive forest ameliorations | | | Week 15 | Fundamentals of project preparation related with unproductive forest improvements | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Odabaşı, T., 1976. Türkiye'de baltalık ve korulubaltalık ormanları ve bunların koruya dönüştürülmesi olanakları üzerine araştırmalar. İ.Ü. Orman fakültesi yayınları, No 2079/218, İstanbul. | | | |
| 1 | Saatçioğlu, F., 1979. Silvikültür tekniği (Silvikültür II). İ.Ü. Orman fakültesi yayınları, No 2490/268, İstanbul. | | | 2 | Saatçioğlu, F., 1971. Orman bakımı. İ.Ü. Orman fakültesi yayınları, No 1636/160, İstanbul. | | | 3 | Odabaşı, T.; Çalışkan, A.; Bozkuş, H.,F.,2004. Orman bakımı.İ.Ü. Orman fakültesi yayınları, No 4458/474, İstanbul. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 22/11/2021 | 1 | 30 | | Project | 13 | 20/12/2021 | 2 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 10/01/2022 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 2 | 10 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 6 | 3 | 18 | | Proje | 9 | 7 | 63 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 214 |
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